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Title: Karl: Then the cicadas, like kindling that won’t take
Medium: Paper, Wood, Gouache, Ink and Found Objects Under Glass
Dimensions: 10.5" x 6.5" x 9.25"
Artist Statement: I haunt yard sales and flea markets, pursuing discarded histories – shoe box coffins filled with images of other people's dead relatives. I collect and reuse discarded objects; photographs, letters, books and ephemera. I remake these with collage and paint, layering story into each piece as I go. My work is inspired in part by a Mexican adage which suggests that people die three deaths - the first occurs as the body ceases to function, the second comes when the body is lowered into the ground, and the third, most definitive, death happens when there is no one left alive who remembers. There is nostalgia inherent in the objects I select as source materials, a nostalgia that adds an inescapable layer of meaning. The use of materials with existing histories further enforces the awareness of a connection to the transient nature of all things. Layered with imagery, redolent of experience and longing, it is my hope that this work will evoke real life and personal histories past and present.
Title: Karl: Then the cicadas, like kindling that won’t take
Medium: Paper, Wood, Gouache, Ink and Found Objects Under Glass
Dimensions: 10.5" x 6.5" x 9.25"
Artist Statement: I haunt yard sales and flea markets, pursuing discarded histories – shoe box coffins filled with images of other people's dead relatives. I collect and reuse discarded objects; photographs, letters, books and ephemera. I remake these with collage and paint, layering story into each piece as I go. My work is inspired in part by a Mexican adage which suggests that people die three deaths - the first occurs as the body ceases to function, the second comes when the body is lowered into the ground, and the third, most definitive, death happens when there is no one left alive who remembers. There is nostalgia inherent in the objects I select as source materials, a nostalgia that adds an inescapable layer of meaning. The use of materials with existing histories further enforces the awareness of a connection to the transient nature of all things. Layered with imagery, redolent of experience and longing, it is my hope that this work will evoke real life and personal histories past and present.