the cyborgs undone,
the ghosts came to light,
the ancestors control the future
in this solo show, i inspect textural strata of such materials as beeswax, burlap, leather, steel, plaster, wood, and paper / all of these materials have been used by people for millennia / they transport to the past evoking not only memories and myths but also dreams and poetry / i want my work to enable people to transcend their everyday and get lost in rich world of textures and inventive shapes to discover their hidden poetry / if we look back to the past, how can we (re)imagine our present and future selves?
i, a dreamer, poet, creator and lover of bees, invite you to a journey between times to meet the ghosts dreamed up / my suggested means of transportation are sculpture, painting, print maiking, performance, and poetry / the means are diverse because art and imagination is limitless
*notes on three sculptures:
bruno schultz wrote the ‘treatise on tailors' dummies or the second book of genesis’ / schultz’s ability to dream up reality is unprecedented and the reference of the tailors’ dummies is appealing because not i too is preoccupied with objects made look human (see below the sculptures ‘she, the shifter I, II, and III’, aka dolls)
what unites schulz’s tailors’ dummies and my ‘dolls’ is not simlpy their reference to the human figure but their desire to become humans / a craftsman sees the human body in a peice of wood and, by cutting, sawing and chiseling it, she embues it with human sensibilities / the idea of transformation, and even trans-substantiation, is at the center of the craftsman’s doings