Artist
Statement Dolls & Walls
Artist
Statement Dolls & Walls
I think dolls are scary. The doll image
is probably about me...or my mother….or sisters……or friends. I scare myself,
sometimes. My mom was scary. My sisters, for sure, are scary and the best of my
friends are too. Scary and wonderful. I have done over 60 paintings utilizing
doll imagery.
The images of cinder blocks and walls
are sort of metaphors for “family”, both as barrier and as protection. I have
done about 130 works with cinder blocks (aggregate concrete masonry units -
CMUs).
Concrete is believed to have been invented by
the Romans but some historians have uncovered evidence that the ancient
Egyptians may have invented it, much, much earlier. With the industrial
revolution, the manufacture of the CMU as an affordable substitute for stone
boomed. When my parents were going through their divorce, we had a wonderful
cinder block wall around our backyard. I could lie on that wall, above the
fray, and watch the West Texas sky. I like
having a family. They drive me crazy, too.
I want a feeling from an artwork, more than information or decoration. By
stacking images in a certain way with colors, with jokes, with other shapes, I
go after a sense of how peculiar Life is.
It is fun and poignant melancholy.
But I do just love to paint, to see
what happens.
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