Handmade
Readymade
(acrylic paint on canvas)
2005 - ongoing
The Handmade Readymade project is an ongoing series of canvases painted to resemble books. The paintings function as trompe l'oeil in the round, as text works, found poetry, as constructed mini-narratives and as stand-ins for grand universal themes.
An exercise in scale, appropriation and repurposing - language is offered up as a material, occilating between the visual and the communicative.
Through the transformative properties of re-making, the found text and images mutate and become malleable to new meaning.
