Artist Statement from the Malden Contemporary at The Gallery at Elm Street
This is my mash up.
- Take something familiar and make it new. Make it unrecognizable. One drawing has the pattern from my mother’s dishes. Over there, on that drawing is a design from a metal wind-up rocket I had when I was five. I can barely recognize them myself, but then again I knew what they were when I drew them. Soon they’ll fade to be equal to every other line on the page. A piece of a memory mixed with noise
- Take something I’ve never known. Diagrams of machines I’ve never used and plants I’ve never seen outside of a magazine and twist them until they reflect some shade of a memory. Watch parts, automobile parts, botanical drawings, ornamental designs and architectural layouts all go into the mix. I jumble them together until they echo half-remembered images from my childhood.
Everything gets mashed together to help create a space for the line to move and undulate and grow.
