Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Shifts - Body as Border


SHIFTS - 2022

Shifts - A conceptual series of photographic self-portraits thinking about bordering and bodies.
The painting is gouache on old maps I found at a flea market in Italy. I took the maps apart and rearranged them into this borderline.....blue references water for me in this work and the black interrupted line the traditional marking on a map for a border or division of some sort. I have also been thinking recently about "The Commons" and how that historically existed. These were made as I prepared documentation for exhibitions in Rome, Italy and Davidson, North Carolina (2022).








 

Thanks to Tanya Fox for making these photographs!