Statement Post Exhibit

Using Collage, Performative Experiments and Text for Social Critique

Color & energy. These are the words that come to mind when I think about this project. Combining collage and text into an artist's book is an entirely new medium for me. Although I have worked with words extensively as a writer, with images as a filmmaker, and performative processes, this coming together of these mediums is a fresh thing. (I have played with the traditionally women's crafts of decoupage, and scrap-booking in the past as a hobby, and it's exciting to consider using these dismissed crafts to say something significant.) It is challenging to explore thoughts within book format. It is also very new for me to think about display and exhibition of a non-time based work. The imagery will is a combination of text, paper dolls, magazine clippings and photographs. My subject matter is also a growth as my last studio project was a narrative video biography collage diary, and this one is an autobiographical collage diary, in book form.

This is challenging because I never envisioned myself doing more than media work. I feel that my approach to my work has become more free form, and less rigid. The project became a visual diary for me, and I am looking forward to the feedback of my peers. It is a wonderful risk to expose myself in blatant autobiography, since my last project was an exposing biography.