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STATEMENT OF WORK
I began my art practice 32 years after art school. From scratch. An empty space, a large paper roll. I began unleashing years of content. In the process I have discovered I am a storyteller.
My work is usually figurative, or representation based. Scale is a key component of the exploration. I continually work switching between large and small scale for different ongoing series. Working on a ladder provides a different intimacy to working miniature. 100 life-size works on paper evolved from sessions with 50 models I met online. A different approach to when I base a work on found photographs. Or 18 ongoing diaries containing over a 1200 detailed drawings that begin with pin pricks of blood from daily tests.
The works here, sightings 1973, sprung from pictures I made 52 years ago. 1973 was a tumultuous political year. One that also had an unusual amount of reported UFO sightings and supposed alien abductions. 1973 was also a year of very unsettling personal anxiety for me. This work originated from black and white contact sheets of photographs I made that year with my mothers vintage 1940s Roleicord camera. She was a studio photograper during the war.
My work is often informed by found photographs. Though I made these particular images -- in this context with the disconnect of lapsed time -- I considers them found images. They were found in back of a drawer after 40+ years. I am drawn to the movie-frame quality of images. What is the drama one can extract from the subjects. Connection, isolation? Something banal or haunted? The experience of memory, repurposed and ephemeral. What is happening out ov view. This series includes individual videos, separate works meant to accompany the actual paintings. My work is often mixed media. I experiment with non-traditional surfaces for certain series.
While aspects of photographic process frequently inform or are included as a component of the work, drawing is everywhere in my art practice. It is a process that allows me to explore the nuance of iconography and narratives — the nature of identity.