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Artist's Statement
In my work as a visual
artist and a writer I am interested in how the unspoken communicates
and how space interacts with visual elements or text (or both) in
communicating what is not overtly articulated. Within this context,
communication is achieved through the tension that exists between
the expressed and the implied; image becomes a locus, a point toward
which all other elements gravitate. In this arena, silences—those
areas of pause between the forms, between the lines—provide sites
for the viewer to reevaluate what is experienced and complete what
is left uncompleted.
My drawings and paintings in this exhibition span the time frame
1997 to 2004 and are linked by an on going exploration of the
ambience of memory—how its threads link and form to shape the
contours of one’s life. In engaging this in my work I am conscious
of the pulse of silence—that which lingers after the words, after
the images. I am also increasingly aware of those luminal areas of
transition we traverse as human beings; how elements of our actual
and perceived experience combine in producing what we will and will
not carry with us. My work focuses on the dialogues within these
fragile and tenuous spaces. |
