My work as educator, imagist and activist are integrated through collaborative structures. While my work in each is not analogous to the others, the processes share strategies of choice, discipline and responsibility.
My images, based on properties of trace, delay and proximity, investigate a mechanics of memory. These personal (or constituent) memories, complemented with cultural memory, have structured artist books, paintings, drawings and sculpture that have borrowed from both classical and physiological constructs of mnemonic operations. In this project I join two operations: an articulation of various mnemonic systems; and the incorporation of an English language word type (heteronyms) that, like memory, depend upon contextual constructs. In the former, I have devised multi-stationed operations for remembering and forgetting. In the latter I have produced an extensive dictionary of heteronyms (two or more words spelled the same, pronounced differently and mean differently; e.g., secreted, hinder, evening, palsy, unionized, number).
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