IN HER OWN WORDS
“Words unintentionally entered my work and at times during the making of my visual artworks – my creation spilled much faster than my creative surface could capture, then words came to soak up my visual speed in that time. Other times life has kept me from my visual work and in those times words came to quench my thirst to visualize no matter what. I look back today and I understand I’ve never been able to separate the two. At points in my life my words and imagery became one, as in my handmade books which were centerpieces too much broader work as in my installation works of Preservation, Family Album and Dreams of Reality, Reality of Dreams and other times words are part of the visual surface as in ‘Barefoot Across The Desert’.”
-The Artist
WORDS ARTISTIC
For more than 30 years the artists writings have sat behind her work as her imagery spilled over from paint into text. Her words have united a greater meaning that depth cannot be divorced from the visual work itself. It’s often been said of the artist writings she “Paints with words.” The art critic – Tony Godfrey wrote of her piece Dreams of Reality – Reality of Dreams: “This is an extraordinary piece of work. It is one of the best attempts to provide an equivalent to different levels of experience – verbal and visual, confessional, anecdotal and speculative – I have read.”
DREAMS OF REALITY | REALITY OF DREAMS
WORDS WITH JACKETS
Throughout her career her work has fallen over into the written form in poetry and in handmade books. Often a bookwork is at the heart of an artwork like PRESERVATION COPPER BOOK the center piece to her photographic installation PRESERVATION. In her books she brings together unique materials to tell their own tale alongside her own imagery, rust telling tales of vessels decayed way past their useful life and in her book BLOW AWAY DREAMS transparent tissue paper made of silk thread bears the compression of the printing press to be etched upon. Her books are unique works of art and her writing carries her unique voice of empathy.
PRESERVATION COPPER BOOK
HANDMADE BOOKS
DREAMS OF REALITY | REALITY OF DREAMS
PAINTING WITH WORDS
The artists imagery sometime spills over from paint into text and unites a meaning of depth that cannot be divorced from the visual work itself. Read her words
