Collages, Grids, Boxes
The works in this section were made in the last few Covid years with pictures taken during lockdown in NYC from March through May 2020 and beyond, as I began to make my way back into the world.
During that first year, I became aware of the vast amounts of waste I saw around me- the discarded masks, gloves, delivery packaging and trash in the streets, and the sudden inability to get whatever I needed at the drop of a hat- food items, groceries, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and the like. I became interested in making art out of what was at hand- proofs of pictures lying around my studio, empty cannabis treat boxes from the jellies we had consumed, stashes of old art and school supplies, paper bags, ribbons, string…
I began cutting up little squares from the proofs and fitting them into the boxes to make grid collage pieces, which I then fastened together with the brads, and began to design tables that might hold them so they could be looked down on from above, the way I was seeing them as I worked.
In the piles of discarded pieces of proofs from which I had cut the squares, I started to see collages beginning to take shape, and began gluing together the layers. And I began to arrange and rearrange other images into grids, in an effort to make sense of what had transpired, and perhaps divine some wisdom through the photographs.
I can’t say any of it makes sense, even now - perhaps it is still too soon, so this is an ongoing shape-shifting body of work.
Boxes are one of a kind pieces.
Triptych is an edition of 10.
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