We like them together like that . . . for now

3 works, all 2018, using handmade cast abaca & cotton papers and other materials (l to r): Summers in Gloucester before and after their loss What was left before it, too, was swept away Driving cross country with Lil

3 works, all 2018, using handmade cast abaca & cotton papers and other materials
(l to r): Summers in Gloucester before and after their loss
What was left before it, too, was swept away
Driving cross country with Lillian

Phipps Center for the Arts
Hudson, WI
Fall, 2018

The 7 works in the show are made up of paper objects that we made in the studio. We add and take away objects as we move them around the wall until we get a composition that seems indivisibly engaged and not simply entangled. How the objects balance or obscure each other, support or slip past each other seem analogous to human interaction. So, we like them together like that until we don’t and then we’ll move them around into new works.

For instance, the 2 different forms making up Talking on the Phone with Natalie, 92 (first 2 images in the gallery below) are twisted to mimic each other in a way that keeps them from moving closer or farther apart. Instead, they move around each other in either a wary circling or a dance of mutual support. The coiled reed suggests a history of tense, uncertain conversations. Its long shadow suggests a twilight of coming closure.

Watching my brothers, Says here . . . and What was left . . . (next 3 works) also suggest forms in uneasy, wary interaction.

The show was up Oct 26 to Dec 2, 2018.

Thank you’s to Anastasia Shartin, Phipps Visual Arts Director, Steven Johnson, Phipps Visual Arts Council and art photographer, and our co-gallerist, Barry McMahon, for making our installation so smooth! Phipps Center for the Arts

(l to r) Says here it's still ready for the flood Talking on the phone Summers in Gloucester before and after their loss all 2018, and all are handmade cast abaca and cotton papers. Additional materials are: garden wire, caning and fencing wire, respectively.

(l to r) Says here it's still ready for the flood
Talking on the phone with Joan, 92
Summers in Gloucester before and after their loss
all 2018, and all are handmade cast abaca and cotton papers. Additional materials are: garden wire, caning and fencing wire, respectively.

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