“We Are Here So Lightly” is a collection of old Chinese scrolls that I have painted, printed, glued, sewn, and stained as an act of aesthetic and spiritual resuscitation. Found texts, created photographic images, painted reconstructed symbols and words, play with and against each other asking an array of questions of the viewer. They are an acknowledgment of transience, impermanence, and imperfection in their “wabi sabi ” sensibility , evoking a poetic and metaphorical state. Along with a palimpsest of old papers gathered in my travels, fabrics, and cyanotypes, there is an imaginative layering of histories, cultures, and metaphors. Chairs fall, chairs rise up into other realms. Snakes, rabbits, dress forms take on a visionary relationship to the world. An acceptance of transience and paradox is the thread running through all of the work.
Paul Trachtman on this body of work: writer for the Smithsonian
“What is important about these paintings is not the subject matter, but without the subject they would not be so important. Through this paradox, they invite deep reflection on illusion and reality. They refuse to be one or the other. They are spaces where the mind sees itself behind the scenes. They are dreams that invite us to wake up.”
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