Pastiche: Various Off-the-Wall Pieces
Pastiche: Various On-the-Wall Pieces
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Religious
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The Cyclades
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The Caribbean
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Abstract & Contemplative Photography
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American Histories
At one time or another, each of us has experienced the earnest desire to understand and bear witness to a real or imagined past. This body of work, American Histories, acknowledges those feelings and draws from and evokes key events and trends affecting American society and culture, and the lived experiences of individual people.
The series of pieces reflects the evolution of my work over the life of this project. Originally envisioned as a series of letters and photographs, I was frustrated that the pieces did not adequately engage the viewer with the experiences and shared humanity of those from another time whose history is a part of ours, but whose day to day experience was vastly different.
As I continued to research artistic approaches, I was particularly drawn to the assemblages of Joseph Cornell and Betye Saar.
The pieces that make up American Histories are composed of documents, letters, ephemera, found objects, and images from private collections or from the internet. Using photo transfer, a rarely seen and relatively new experimental enameling technique, I affixed the images to a copper plate covered with a vitreous enamel substrate. Subsequent kiln firing makes the images and recollection of a past prone to fading, permanent.
Lost and Found: The Cyclades
In the Neolithic period the Cycladic civilization flourished in a group of islands in the Aegean Sea. Archeological excavations unearthed exquisite marble statuary—elegant, symmetrical, austere, and evocative. The figures are largely of two types: abstractions of a generic human figure and so-called violin figures—representations of the female form. Buried until the early 1800s and attended to only by academics, the pieces, crafted between 3800 and 2300 BCE, gained new interest as modern artists particularly Modigliani and Giacometti, drew on the elements of this art in their own work.
Like artists before me, I have found the work of the unknown masters of the Cyclades. These pieces refer to their artistry and sensibility, reinterpreting it in the medium of enamel. What for millennia was lost, found by diggers, and then by sculptors has once again been found and made tangible in a medium finding its way in the space between art and craft.
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Photography in Haiti
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Pantheon
Re-visioning the religious iconography of Haitian voudoun, New Orleans voodoo, Latin American Santería (La Regla de Los Santo, Lukumi) American Southern hoodoo, Caribbean obeah, New Orlean Voodoo, and Brazilian condomblé employing images rendered in enamel to evoke the daily life and unconscious spirituality of the people of the diaspora.
