"Lost""Lost" is a multi-media piece which has been built on a thick piece of polystyrene. It is 17" x 17" x 2"; materials include murano smalti and millefiori (including 14K gold smalti), bits of red coral, plate glass applied over paper collage.
"Lost" represents our unresolved past, our life-changing events that cannot be forgotten. We are trapped, lost within the memories.
"Lost" is a sort of performance piece. I began by creating "Never Enough Payback", which is a mixed media collage. The images represent a very dark time in my life which I endeavored to bury for years and eventually realized that it was seeping to the surface and causing all sorts of problems for me. I faced it, I re-lived it, I visually described it, and then I documented the destruction of it. Once it was in pieces, it's power was, not completely, but substantially diminished. I incorporated the majority of the pieces into "Lost", and "it" took on a new and positive life. The remaining pieces I placed in a sack and shipped them off to a show in Atlanta at the Art House Co-op called Stick Your Sorries in a Sack. The sack and its contents were then taken to the landfill.
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| "Never Enough Payback", 24" x 24" |
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| detail of Lost |
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| The deconstruction process.... |
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The pieces of the collage which were not incorporated into "Lost" were then stuffed into a sack and sent off to the Art House Co-op.
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