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OBJECTS

 

VIDEO INSTALLATION RUINS

2018

Ruin #2 after Bourgeois
Ruin #2 after Bourgeois

Unfired terracotta , shellac, chickenwire and oxide on wood plinth

Ruin #6 after Gentileschi
Ruin #6 after Gentileschi

Plaster, beeswax, shellac, oxides, dried igularia leaves on found wooden tabletop

Ruin #4 after Kahlo
Ruin #4 after Kahlo

Concrete, unfired clays on wood plinth

Ruin #3 after Ruysch
Ruin #3 after Ruysch

Unfired terracotta , shellac, oxide on wood plinth

Ruin #5 after Tanning
Ruin #5 after Tanning

Concrete, chickenwire, unfired clays, glaze on wood plinth

Ruin #1 after Vigee Le Brun
Ruin #1 after Vigee Le Brun

Unfired pocelain, beeswax and oxides on wood plinth

 

The objects are a recreation of something that once existed, but are now transformed through, liquefaction, drying, smothering or solidifying into a ruin. I am examining entropy; the gradual decline into disorder and its impact on memory. Memory is triggered by disintegration, loss and endings that are revealed in poetic imagery. Ruins have appeared throughout the history of painting and have intrigued humans of all ages. They trigger nostalgic memories about the past and can transport us into the future.

 

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