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Broken Borders - V
Mixed media on paper, 26x20", 2006
Miracle of Life - I
Mixed media painting on paper, 7.5x14.5", 2006
Since the late 1990s, my work has involved the creation of conceptually based socio-cultural prints and drawings. In 1997 I began using collaged text in my drawings. Collaged text has now become a very prominent feature in my work and I continue to use the same text and medium (graphite) that I used in 1997. In my work, I construct the events and situations that are part of my childhood and adult culture. My work also addresses gender roles/gender assignment, the fragility of family dynamics, domestic issues and the underlying threads of culture that emphasize my background. Often times these themes are combined into drawings and images that feature symbolic objects, infinite backgrounds, broken tracks with embellished borders and text. I usually work on several bodies of work concurrently. In other words, the various bodies of work inform or cross pollinate each other.
In my everyday life, my escape is in the creative power of art. I am primarily a visual person and am always observing images and ideas which have yet to take form. That was the case for my new series of images to memorialize the changing events to the world geography. My work has always been a mirror of my culture in which I live and through my work, I express my joy, pain, desire and triumphs.
As I try to come to understand the unspeakable events of the existing world, my drawings reflect the outpouring of grief, loss and the ultimate destruction of our world.
The drawings are the visual expression of my own feelings to the tragedy of the broken borders and I believe they serve to express what we've all been feeling as we come to the reality that our world has changed forever.
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