Reliquary for Compacted Distanceintaglio, relief, silkscreen & collage
Remains
handmade accordion fold book with intaglio, relief & silkscreen
in the background where you see two rectangles, those are my other pieces
Artist statement:
There are curious histories of shrouds. This is not all. Memory’s architecture is neither palatial nor theatrical but soft.
—Lisa Robertson
Memories become shrouded, swallowed by the past. In my work I am searching through my own memories and considering collective memory. The juxtaposition of disparate elements causes questions of memory, history, thought and identity to play upon the latent tension in all of us to remember details and solidify our understanding of space and place. Even while the exact meaning of the particular imagery in my work remains unclear, narratives can form in the viewer’s mind.
Old photographs, keepsakes, and other ephemera intrigue me for the sense of the “other” they leave behind. When we look at them or touch them, we are keenly aware of an absence, and question the identity and memory of the people who may have possessed them before us. I am exploring these questions through a visual poetics of memory that can stir questions in the viewer as well. Using printmaking techniques, I can layer transparently and erode the original images to suggest something ethereal, ghostly or faint paired with sharper images to create a tension revolving around the inaccessibility of memory and the anonymity of it.
There are curious histories of shrouds. This is not all. Memory’s architecture is neither palatial nor theatrical but soft.
—Lisa Robertson
Memories become shrouded, swallowed by the past. In my work I am searching through my own memories and considering collective memory. The juxtaposition of disparate elements causes questions of memory, history, thought and identity to play upon the latent tension in all of us to remember details and solidify our understanding of space and place. Even while the exact meaning of the particular imagery in my work remains unclear, narratives can form in the viewer’s mind.
Old photographs, keepsakes, and other ephemera intrigue me for the sense of the “other” they leave behind. When we look at them or touch them, we are keenly aware of an absence, and question the identity and memory of the people who may have possessed them before us. I am exploring these questions through a visual poetics of memory that can stir questions in the viewer as well. Using printmaking techniques, I can layer transparently and erode the original images to suggest something ethereal, ghostly or faint paired with sharper images to create a tension revolving around the inaccessibility of memory and the anonymity of it.
2 comments:
I LOVE your work! You rock!
You and Lance = Best of show.
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