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PENNANT COLLAGES (2012-2013)Artist Statement
In this ongoing series, I make experimental drawings on irregularly torn or cut paper often tapered like pennants. I use clay, fabric dye, iron acetate, and traditional materials to quickly produce about 7-10 drawings an hour. Ephemera from my everyday life serve as grounds for drawings made in small segments of time carved from a busy life.
My gathering of collage material greatly expanded during a residency at Anderson Center at Tower View in Red Wing, MN. A playwright's research on the Tea Party, a photographer's test prints, a novelist's lecture notes on homosexuality in India mingle with free-form drawing experiments made by high schoolers during a workshop in my studio. These were drawn into, torn up, and posted on the wall in chronological order along with my other materials. Together, they created a timeline that filled the entire studio. I then assembled the thousands of drawings into a final 9 x 12 foot collage titled Divided Attention.
