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Way back when somewhere in the midst of 2023, I began the series that I thought would tell the story of my art-making since the 70s. I told the story in The Artful Mind (pages 22-31) that goes like this: In the 90s, I saw a retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns in which…
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A discovery after I made Coloring Book Pages 1-42 was incorporated into the title of that series. The shapes that had been isolated with black ink lines could be seen on their own viably as mere shape, unrelated to the photographic image of which they were a part. So I decided to use a fine…
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It was only after I had dismounted my installation at Installation Space in North Adams, MA that its owner informed her followers that the gallery was closing. Instead the space would be used as a revolving entity to bring visiting artists and the local arts community together. My work was chosen for the last show…
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In my efforts to close down my almost two year project of Drawing with Nature with the photographs in the series Wide Angle on Nature As It Turns to Dust, and Coloring Book Pages and all the variations that will emanate from there which I have yet to document or even do, I came upon…
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The next step in the evolution of the photographs of the Drawing With Nature series was isolating the shapes in the photographs in this next group of pieces. The sizes of the latter shapes were often tiny and almost invisible so I decided to take pictures of the pieces in the series as I would…
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During the execution part one and two of the Drawing with Nature Series, the shape content of each of the photographs came to my attention, in some photographs more than in others. I printed out those which had the most discernable shapes and started to draw on them, tracing the easily visible edges with a…
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When I completed the two-part Drawing with Nature Series here and here, I started to clean up the table in my studio where I had collected the flowers and grasses and leaves for over a year. My intention was to crush everything into dust and return it to the earth. As I started to do…
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The most emotionally difficult years of my life were the ones immediately following the finalization of a divorce from a marriage that had lasted twenty-five years. No one asked how I felt or how I was getting along. I was simply empty, so uncertain as to how to proceed, humiliated, emasculated as a woman, and…
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In my pursuit of a consistent statement with the photograph above, which I believe to be one of the most powerful images I have ever photographed, I made 15 black and white images of groups of twigs that I grabbed from a pile that was not the aforementioned pile but a different pile of smaller…
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These two pieces are an effort to employ a design format emanating from Japanese culture. It is my intention to begin to put together the present elements of my work in one place or in one place many times. The only addition I have made to the materials I use, i.e. pigmented pen and markers…
