The Cloak Wants to be Performed

The Cloak Wants to be Performed

This is the Cloak I began early this year, at that time I was calling it “Cape.”  I went to an artist’s residency in Mexico with the intention of making a fiber cocoon, in which to perform my embodiment process.  What I ended up making was a wearable...
Reflecting on Art as it Reflects Us.

Reflecting on Art as it Reflects Us.

“Art is a mirror to nature.”  ShakespeareHouse in the Woods 1989“Art is not a mirror held up to realitybut a hammer with which to shape it.”  Bertolt BrechtThe Gulf Stream 1995“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And...

The Holes in the Fabric of Forgetting

Ancestry Cloth is an esoteric act, a symbolic act, a metaphor for the immigrant, for the nomad, for the wanderer.  It is a daily meditation, weaving together a forgetful monochromatic present with the colors and patterns just beyond memory. When I’m cutting...

Ancestors – India

To speak of Ancestors of to speak of the past in its human form.   Dad leaving IndiaAn Ancestor Cape I finished this weekAll my life I’ve thought about India.  Before I was born my father left on a ship.  It set his life on a course that took him...