Polyptychs
These pieces were a way to approach some narrative imagery derived
from the unconscious - those fabulous twins of memory and dream.
What interested me is what's hidden within us, the secrets we keep
from our sensible selves, the surprises which emerge in the process
of creating art. I made this work to tell myself stories that I didn't
know I knew and to maybe stimulate similar interior dialogues in
the viewer.
So I made these pictorial forays into personal history - not
because I think I'm so damned interesting or because I have an
unquenchable confessional bent, but because it is my psychological
disposition to believe that we may be more connected by secrets -
the withheld stories we have in common - than by gender, culture,
religion or other broad brush social institutions.
These inquiries into memory are frequently framed within a polyptych
format - complexly configured works of multiple components. This
altarpiece arrangement with its piece-by-piece fabrication, allows for
a fashioning of fictionalized chronicles depicting themes & events of
individual experience - especially those from childhood. Working
within a structural parody of religious narrative art forms of the past,
I feel I ocated an approach which mitigateds the pain and awkwardness
too often present when dealing with issues of the personal, while at the
same time commenting on the arbitrary (even absurd) nature of notions
of the good, the holy, the sacred, etc.
Some things just don't turn out the way we were told they should...
from the unconscious - those fabulous twins of memory and dream.
What interested me is what's hidden within us, the secrets we keep
from our sensible selves, the surprises which emerge in the process
of creating art. I made this work to tell myself stories that I didn't
know I knew and to maybe stimulate similar interior dialogues in
the viewer.
So I made these pictorial forays into personal history - not
because I think I'm so damned interesting or because I have an
unquenchable confessional bent, but because it is my psychological
disposition to believe that we may be more connected by secrets -
the withheld stories we have in common - than by gender, culture,
religion or other broad brush social institutions.
These inquiries into memory are frequently framed within a polyptych
format - complexly configured works of multiple components. This
altarpiece arrangement with its piece-by-piece fabrication, allows for
a fashioning of fictionalized chronicles depicting themes & events of
individual experience - especially those from childhood. Working
within a structural parody of religious narrative art forms of the past,
I feel I ocated an approach which mitigateds the pain and awkwardness
too often present when dealing with issues of the personal, while at the
same time commenting on the arbitrary (even absurd) nature of notions
of the good, the holy, the sacred, etc.
Some things just don't turn out the way we were told they should...
