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I am a painter who also makes books. Making books gives me an opportunity to create work on an intimate scale, with text, that is a conceptual extension of my paintings. Genealogy, history, historical invisibility and marginalized personhood are themes I explore in my paintings and in my books. The Practical Speller and Journal of the Ordinary, attempt to personalize history through image and narrative fragments. The shattered and fragmented narratives take shape and inform our awareness of stories that have been ignored or erased. In these books I see historian Lynn Hunt's definition of history as an ongoing tension between stories that have been told and stories that might be told.
The altered books, flights of fancy like dreams, offer open-ended narratives with multiple associations and interpretations. I have a particular fondness for using instructional books from the 1940's, 50's and early 60's. Their constructed sweetness and depiction of the "good life for all", is ripe for critique.
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