Jeez! I can't believe
that I'm sharing this with you, but here goes. PINK was an art installation project that I did in 2003 in Vermont at Grad
School. It was extremely risky as I was expected to show a film project, but I did an autobiographical handmade scrapbook
& diary instead. The main ideas that this project explored were common myths and my own personal issues with labels,
beauty and marriage. I've lead many different motivational workshops using this method of exploration. One day,
I look forward to creating a series of motivational 'films on paper' -- handmade art books just for you... xoxo
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.
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