THE LEXICON
There is a shift in my work I feel it in my bones.
For my entire career I have had an ongoing discussion between imagery, textures and organizational space.
Textures and space usually win over imagery -- they have shaped the body of work that I refer to as ZIGGURATS. However, there has always been a nagging voice that calls me . It is the voice of poetry, more narrative and personal.
It occurs to me, as I glimpse into the future, that the time is right to allow this more narrative voice to surface. I will not know what it will say until the work is made. The photographic images, the drawing and the textures are a culmination of a life-long collection of memories that have some significance to me -- they fit together in my eyes.
The LEXICON work is winding its tendrils around my imagination and my heart. The first set I called "tablet" , then "ghosts" with the human form that I long to explore.. now I am drawing eggs.. and eager to see what will come next.
This is the work I have been waiting to make, now I just must have the patience and discipline to make it. It is my LEXICON, my vocabulary.
