Installation

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 As I continue to discover and experience the world, previously held beliefs and perceptions are challenged, requiring a second look. A stimulating combination of story-telling from sources close to me, current events, and personal history inspire me to continually question the familiar methods I've employed to make sense of the world I inhabit - and explore how I inhabit it.

 

These reflections have found expression in my installation work. Using repurposed materials to create installations is a resonant means of regarding ideas in a different light. Materials from projects past are also recycled, ensuring my art practice leaves a small footprint.  Repurposing materials (especially drawings that I have accumulated over many years of study) is  to literally turn old ways of expression inside out, ripping them apart and reassembling them in order to create something new. 

 

While retaining and valuing the information from the past, I am able to acknowledge growth and change. Installation work demands that I surrender to an intuitive approach in order to achieve the desired effect. With each successive installation project I learn something new. The potential to reveal something once hidden or unclear in my own character, and how that informs how I perceive my surroundings, is a powerful incentive; it encourages room for more questions; it is how I remain curious.

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The following pages are images from installation work  beginning in 2006 with an exploration of prisoners awaiting on death row, and more recently exploring grief, memory and loss.