Sunday, September 29, 2013

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Great-Grandmother's Masculine Ambitions (Wedding Photo)


Painted soap, saved candy lid (part of grandmother's estate)

Monday, September 16, 2013

Great-Grandfather's Feminine Aspirations (Army Photo ID)


Painted soap, found jewelry box, duvet buttons

Friday, September 6, 2013

complete beginner too

what remains? the  Remainder
feminine and masculine coexisting in one body
through the human figure- through this human figure
clean and dirty
grief and joy coexisting
birth and death
timelessness

Soap pieces translated into video
Dust pieces translated into sound
Ani dialogue continuing through mixed media

Collapse of perceived time
Beginning every time- all time, no end






with Ani


It's ironic that it is Ani who is teaching me how to carve smiles.
Hers and Vaclav Havel's are the first positive expression I have carved.
Thank you and missing you, love!

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

For Anitra


complete beginner


two aspects of the same thing in the same space. 

human figure 

perceived dualities of:
above and the below
clean and dirty
conscious and unconscious
back and front
feminine and masculine
grief, anger, and stillness, as they relates to domesticity and Feminism.

beaded Morse–coded poems
Clean city streets
Air Dirty Laundry
life-long love of painting

fragility
precision
fear
attachment

discarded paper and found images
collapse of perceived time
hand held mirrors cast in porcelain to reflect the space around them
necklaces created using Morse code are beaded translations of texts that convert sound into form.
Figure paintings
Why is it agonizingly difficult for me to articulate what I do through the written word?
I feel like a complete beginner. Every. Time.