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Artist Statement 2007 From books and auction catalogues on ethnographic art and antiquities, I scavenge archetypal forms: objects that achieve an archetypal status by transcending cultural boundaries without losing their intrinsic qualities. From these reproductions I make stencils that I use to transcribe and layer silhouettes and outlines of objects, abstracting them to strip off any inherent meaning or point of reference and withdraw any cultural context. I incorporate deconstructive, chancy techniques like rinsing, sanding and masking to invoke the anomalous and transient nature of reality and to invite new meanings for these archetypal sources. Abstracting these sources becomes a means to explore and reconcile these diverse and esoteric ideologies and cultures as well as a means to question how beliefs and perception charge the experience of reality and how we gather knowledge. The resulting hybridized imagery is aimed at coaxing viewers to intuit some subtler grasp of our contemporary interdependence. |