Work in progress using the beautiful document below.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Beautiful Document
I found this visa for a young Romanian Jewish woman who migrated to Canada in 1920 on the internet. Isn't it beautiful?
New Artist Statement. Portraits of the Unknown.
Portraits of the Unknown.
These are the portraits of the foreign, of those who arrive at a border, inadequately described by their identity documents, hoping to find a safe new home.
Shredded identity documents overlay anonymous egg shaped faces and are over stamped with patterns suggesting the domestic environment.
The works look at two often opposing ideas of domestic security - the ideas of home, the safe haven we make unique with furnishings and patterns we apply to walls and floors and, the idea of national domestic security where our borders are protected by the rigorous enforcement of rules governing conditions of entry.
These are the portraits of the foreign, of those who arrive at a border, inadequately described by their identity documents, hoping to find a safe new home.
Shredded identity documents overlay anonymous egg shaped faces and are over stamped with patterns suggesting the domestic environment.
The works look at two often opposing ideas of domestic security - the ideas of home, the safe haven we make unique with furnishings and patterns we apply to walls and floors and, the idea of national domestic security where our borders are protected by the rigorous enforcement of rules governing conditions of entry.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The Artists Statement
Today I have been working on my artist's statement. After a period of concentrated making I am now trying to distill all my ideas into a statement which describes my newest body of work. I had written a short sharp statement with a quote from Picasso which amused me but have decided that I need to bite the bullet and write about my work in a manner which is more 'engaging'.
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