Description:
The small square plate is filled with an upside down triangle composed abstract, crisscrossing branchlike lines in shades of gray. The plate is surrounded by a large border of white paper. One of twenty objects in the portfolio, “Traces,” inspired by the poem of the same title by Annie G. Rogers.
Label Text:
Artist's statement:
“The lines from the poem that spoke most directly to me and my artistic vision, were:
‘…a compass of the visible…
…adds up to the invisible, the unaccounted for…”
Every thread followed throughout my artistic career is based in a profound curiosity about the natural world, and a sense that all that we can easily see is not the entire story. Underlying the complexity of the known world I intuit systems, patterns and structures that echo, repeat and grow within a grand wholeness.
For several years now, the structure and architecture of trees has consumed my interest. I see trees not as forms or objects in and of themselves, but as manifestations of forces and patterns in the natural world, many of them unseen. In the chaos of branches and leaves, the interplay of sticks and sky, I find evidence of systemic patterns and metaphors of other natural systems, such as the cellular patterns that form our own bodies.
All of my work is a search for “compass”, for centrality and focus in the spiritual, emotional and multi-dimensional situation we call life.”
Subjects:
Etching; Copper; drypoints (prints) Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=UM+2019.1.19 |
