Opening Reception: Friday, Oct. 13 at 4:00 p.m., on display October 6-November 10
For the last four years, I have been creating handbound books as a record keeping of my thoughts. I fill them with stories about my work, readings, imaginations, and memories. I draw, paint and collage my photographs and other images onto the pages while working in silence, listening and breathing. John Cage said that deep listening creates a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. This intentional stillness can then infiltrate our imaginations (When Women were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams, p. 65). And each time I listen, I escape to another, surrealistic world.
The books offer a space for happy accidents and inventiveness. The qualities of flexibility, spontaneity, and patience have always been a part of my creative process. I let the materials guide the result rather than following any preconceived ideas or plans. Through Surrealist techniques of de-constructing, re-constructing, appropriating, cutting-up, fragmenting, assembling and distorting, I attempt to discover a new balance within a precariousness of parts. My books are my survival mechanism as they let me cope with the vast amount of global information coming into my life, when browsing the internet and social media. Every time, an empty page becomes a whispering possibility.
