Withdrawals
Artist Statement; Circumstances of Compromise
H: 10”, W: 10”, D: 1 ½ ” (each)
2020
Photo Credit: Elizabeth Lamark
This project uses a current artist statement as a motif representative of my thinking about my glass practice subjected to various instances of negation, erasure, and compromise. The remnants of each sculptural act is archived within a shadow box and installed with its siblings. The project started as a COVID lockdown activity, but is still active and ongoing.
Each gesture considers paper as object, the written word as material, and acts of negation, erasure, and compromise as technique.
During the national lockdown of March 2020 (at the beginning of the COVID era) it became clear that access to the facilities and resources that my work would heavily rely on was not going to be as available to me as it once was. To keep creatively active, I used this period of constriction and uncertainty to translate the conceptual cornerstones of my glass practice with non-glass means and method of art making.
This glass-related study of dismissal was pursued during quarantine, documented, and posted as an Instagram campaign during the weeks of March and April of 2020. Down below are screen shots from most of those posts that ultimately ended up in the finished piece documented above.
