36"x36", hand extruded plaster and blue-silver plating process on jute sacks.
Fragmentation is bits and pieces of memory. The process of reading, voicing or reciting a story, a tail or a poem, relies on word by word. Each letter is a fragment of a word, and a word becomes a fragment of a phase or paragraph. In turn, the paragraph relies on the totality or a “whole” to understand the work. When removing one or more letters from a word or words from a paragraph the work starts losing its identity and purpose. The works in my new series bring to light this fragmentation that tends to be more amorphous each time as if floating in cyberspace, no shape, no direction. Inspired by Sappho, the archaic Greek lyric poet, her “fragments” poems is much left to the imagination. My intent is that each work becomes “whole” in its visual expression and passes from fragmentary to whole, starting a new visual cycle of life.
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