Our Sneak Peek show turned out pretty good. Thankfully we were able to pull an opening together and we had a fair number of people come out for it. Even though I've been taking a different direction with my current work, I thought I should still post the work from the show.
Artist Statement
The work I did in the Burren began as a series of experiments, each with an opportunity for exploration and discovery. What soon emerged was that the ideas I was experimenting with could be thought about in relation to two prefixes; trans -- across, beyond or through; and re -- once more, afresh or in return. More specifically, some of the words I thought about were transcend, transfer, translucent and rebirth, renew, reflect, remember. All of these words I was seeing in connection to the themes of tragedy, mortality, grief and the afterlife. Having experienced tragedy with the loss of my mother a little more than a year ago, these themes hold a personal meaning and significance to my grieving process. The video of the waves and the images of the sea glass represent visual metaphors for that process and the cycle of loss, grief and healing while the sunset series is part of my search for understanding the concept of heaven.
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