The images I will show here allude to a place, are a place, but become snippets of past existence; dispersed, but persistent. Perhaps memory best describes what I do and what defines me.
Friday, June 27, 2008
"Memory is both a truth serum and embalming medium" from NY Times Keith Edmier Art Review - Personal History, Captured in Plastic by Holland Carter
My work leans towards the autobiographical. My camera provides the raw material which I process with drawing, paint, and collage. I love collage because it allows randomness. I begin with an image or object and react to it with paint, pencil, or glue. I pause, rework, cut, glue again, more paint, re-photograph, re-collage, scan and rework. I peel and sandwich. The image lies on top of its arrangement, not behind in its conception