Satellites/Assemblage
I am primarily a painter, but I also have been doing found object art all my life. I love finding things in the trash to use for art. The Receptor Series, are Mandalas of the Modern Age, these are discarded home TV Satellite dishes found in my neighborhood on my morning walks. They are a symbol of man’s waste and our need or dependency for communication/entertainment. It is part of the human experience to process this information. Elements of “the feminine mystique” and nostalgia play a part in each piece. Concentrating on memories of “place” from a biographical perspective. Abstract concepts are employed such as being, knowing, identity, and space as well as memory and nostalgia. I build upon the disc using paper clay, wire, paint and found or fabricated objects. Some hang on a giant pair of chopsticks, another symbol of our throw away society, but they are also reminiscent of a Travois or ladder connected to the earth. A Travois is an A-Frame structure to carry loads used by the American Plainsmen.