About Me
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Some of this work relates to my time in India and Africa, with oil lamps and shrines and gold and marigolds and homage in those shrines: to immortal and myth creatures and reverent spirits, as in the Buddha and Ogun, the African God for prosperity.
Gold signifies specialness and my images support the ideas of some monuments created to represent these in bronzed clay. The small pieces have on them in mixed media" monuments" created for a love of Victoriana, mixed media of hair and
photographs and wreaths.
Victoriana was so much involved in the celebration of the memories of loved ones, and this mixed media describes transience and fragility, while bronze glazes signify permanence. Vulnerability and fragility - these works are significant of these human elements. The white works and large wooden-based forms are made using raw clay with a latex coating to signify this fragility and vulnerability.
When I went to India there were colors in groupings of metaphors: clay and stone sculptures from thousands of years ago that fascinated me, markets of wool, wood, sapphires and mirrors.
I have symbolized these images into my own reflections of collage on clay, authentic as the experiences I had. I found visions that resonated with me, from stone serpents in the spirals of life-giving waters to the Ganges River, sacrifices of the crematorium to my own memories left there.
This work is about these things, based on the spiritual interiors I find in myself.
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