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"Fragile" The child in the window, the broken window, the torn photograph, the broken threads, all are fragile. Within the word "fragile" is RAGE. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Stepping Down" depicts chairman Mao disintegrating. This is one of a series of four pieces that use Chinese jacquard-woven posters. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Red Squares" takes on Joseph Stalin, breaking him up and suggesting his evil nature with skeletons in the corners. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Dragon Robes" shows the persistant legacy of dictators by showing Chairman Mao in three incarnations. Dragon robes refers to robes of rank in Imperial China. A spoof is made on the dragon robes with a LaCoste alligator bathrobe and a sports shirt printed with dinosaurs. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Red King in a Black Suit" was created for the exhibition "The Art Quilt, Playing With a Full Deck" organized by Sue Pierce. Fifty-four artists were each invited to create a playing card. Here Lenin is backed by St. Basil's cathedral and by sayings inspired by playing cares, such as "double dealing" and "house of cards". | ||||||||||||||||
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"Art Gecko" was inspired by a trip to Indonesia. Geckos were everywhere. Here I have them taking shape as they do in the works of MC Escher, gradually becoming three-dimensional. They are backed by two Indonesian monuments and by the famous art deco Chrysler Building in New York. | ||||||||||||||||
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"The Road to Agra" is another travelogue, this time of our trip to India. One of the main destinations was Agra, site of the Taj Mahal. Traveling in India is never a straight line. Planes were cancelled and itineraries were shuffled. I learned the importance of enjoying the journey rather than being impatient about the destination. The real experience of India were the adventures we discovered along the route. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Two Views of Meiji Shrine" is a remembrance of visiting Meiji Shrine with my friend Janet. I remember walking through the garden in the rain, Janet remembers the expanse of iris, which gardeners were busy tieing to supports. Those are the two views. The haiku verse reads: "In Meiji Garden twin rods support both iris and umbrella. Rain." | ||||||||||||||||
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"Burning the Bones" is a memorial for a friend. I included his interests in archaic weaving machines, computers and clocks. His image is covered with a copy of his obituary. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Weathering the Storm", "Sharing", "Solving the Puzzle" and "Fresh Start" are a set of four that I made for a women's shelter in Madison WI. Through images of hous and hands, I wanted to create an optimistic story of friends sharing their troubles, working through them and starting over with new wisdom. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Solving the Puzzle" and "Fresh Start" each of the four pieces is 40" x 40". | ||||||||||||||||
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"Changing Places" is about remodeling and construction around Capitol Square in Madison. The corner squares show some tongue-in-cheek remodeling of the Capitol building itself, demolishing the dome and replacing it with a silo and a beer stein. Names of businesses from thirty years ago surround the center. | ||||||||||||||||
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"American Beauty" is about idealized feminine beauty as represented by Barbie. If you follow all the steps in this gameboard, you will be thin and glossy, with an impossible figure. The title refers to the flower, as well as to the impossible dream. | ||||||||||||||||
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"American Beauty" detail | ||||||||||||||||
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"Sanguinaria" is the second in the series based on the double meanings of the names of flowers. "Sanguinaria Canadensis" is the scientific name for bloodroot, and "Sanguinaria" also means "bloody things" | ||||||||||||||||
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"Golden Lotus" is the third flower piece, a commentary on the practice of foot binding. The term golden lotus refers to the perfectly bound three-inch foot as well as to the water lily. The middle panel shows four women whose tiny feet are highlighted. In China in former times, beauty contestants were placed behind a curtain and judged only on the perfection of their feet. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Smokin' Women" is based on magazines advertising for cigarettes in the 1930's and 1950's. Smoking is portrayed as glamorous, and warns "Is this you in five years", meaning will you be fat. "Smoke a Lucky Instead". I added some skeletons and changed the words on the cigarette packs to phrases like "Dying for a Smoke" and "Out of Luck" | ||||||||||||||||
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"Signs of Winter" is the northern winter night sky. Signs of the Zodiac are matched with their corresponding constellations. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Family Portrait" was created as a gift for my son's family. Their names are Philip, Elizabeth, Alice and Robin--P,E,A,R. They call themselves "The Pears" | ||||||||||||||||
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"Oak Trees" 25" x 48". This piece was created for a friend's business office. He has a view of the woods from his office window. | ||||||||||||||||
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"Five Slides" 8" x 35". Created for an exhibition on the theme of "community". Photos were taken in playgrounds in and around Madison, and printed on cotton with my Epson 820 printer. |  |
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"Coming Together" 8.25" x 43". Another piece for the "community" show. Color photos are made up of four layers, yellow, magenta, cyan and black. Every color is essential to the final picture, just as every kind of person is essential to the makeup of community |  |
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