catherine hammond |
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Artist Statement
Walk
into A Clearing at the Center as if entering
a mandala or a medieval labyrinth. Notice that Fictions, the paintings on
the outside walls depend on a sense of narrative as they take their titles from
the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, an Argentine. The series Diccionario
includes pages from a Spanish Dictionary from 1945 that belonged to my
grandfather. The Girls live at the center. I paint my own body to imprint image on silk. Those that hang call up Fog, Mist,
Twilight, and Whirlwind. They converse
with Chinese landscape painting or stone-age fertility figures. Some mention ceremonial or funerary
robes. The tattered filaments resurrect quipu,
knotted strings used by the Inca for memory. |