Little Girl
Palimpsest refers to a surface where original work has been rubbed off or worked over with other layers. The multi-layered surface created by the artist is symbolic of the multi-layered nature of memory.
In Little Girl, I am exploring the theme of loss. I layered intrusive marker events into the layers of memory that shape the surface of my life. The journey through different layers built up, by compulsive washing, staining, sewing and mark making are symbolic of the memories of moving on-it becomes the landscape of my life, a search without end for a landscape which I am a part of.
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Place
My work is a means of thinking and understanding through the process of drawing, painting and working in clay. In life we face vexing and heart-wrenching circumstances and events which we have little or no control over. While we cannot control these events, we are able to interpret them in a way that brings healing. It is within our power to control how we react. How we respond reveals how we see our world; how we place ourselves in that world, and who we are.
Memory Thread
This collection explores different aspects of memory, the palimpsest that constructs my reality. I have been working with the idea of a repeated memory, an involuntary memory that plunges the individual into remembrance of the past. The conscious memories we retain, also referred to as Voluntary Memory, are like pages of a photo album, but they fail to capture the essence of the past. I have tried to visually portray Involuntary Memory, those memories that appear in my mind, explosive, sudden and unpredictable. The experience comes upon us in a flash, without warning. It is not a rational experience, it drives us powerfully, perhaps more powerfully than the rational. They arrive and vanish without premeditation.
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