White Faced Woman 2005 $100
Pigment inkjet prints on Tentenal paper
6” x 6” closed
Edition of 20
Nine poems chronicling the period of grief after a death are accompanied by paintings made later in response to the poems. The words and images portray the landscape of grief and an eventual deliverance from its territory. Images and text by the artist.
This caressing, golden day holds me,
a newborn, a motherless daughter,
delivered from the boundaries of her world.
Out here, beyond the fence line, meanings reassemble.
The fence posts hammered in by words and will
now list and falter. They succumb to stealthy rot
and ravenous insect generations, all indifferent and irreverent.
Perfect wire squares of fence, once taut and gleaming,
now bow and buckle in the tendril grip of vines.
Brown and scaled with rust, the barriers crumble
in service to the new and scrambling growth.
White Faced Woman installation 2005
The wall installations are based on three poems and images from the book. In installation form, the words and images reveal themselves over time and space and also draw on abstract sculptural qualities to involve the viewer in the unfolding discovery of meaning.
White Faced Woman
Boundaries
Sanctuary
