compression

.0035 The Bhgavad Gita-As It Is 1978

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Pulped pages of the book “The Bhagavad Gita- As It Is, given to me at an airport. 16″x 9 1/2″x 3 1/2”. Collection of the artist.

Exbitited in “Bookworks: DC,” at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1980.

Exhibited in “Packard, Spaulding, Yamaguchi,” at the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984.

.0033 Continental Shelf 1978

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National Geographic magazines. 10″x7″x 2 1/4″. Collection of the artist.

Exhibited in “Paper: Changing Uses and Concepts,” Gallery 10, Washington, D.C., 1980.

Exhibited in “BOOKWORKS:D.C.,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1980

Exhibited in “Packard, Spaulding, Yamaguchi,” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.,1980

.0031 Clothes 1979

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Clothes, acrylic medium. 16″x 8″diameter. Collection of the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.

Exhibited at Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984. Exhibited in “Recontextualizing the Found,” curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos and Bill Pangburn, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, NYC, 2014.

Exhibited in “Metamorphosis: Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” curated by Maurita Poole and Laura Blereau, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA , 2022

This is a very early work further addressing the concept of record-keeping, journaling with materials, autobiography, Compression, distillation of experience, hinting at these by exposing interior layers.

The piece is composed of some of the clothes my mother made or purchased for me prior to my year as a student in Italy, that I wore there, and that returned with me. They retain something of my experience there. They are materially the same but different. Transformed -as I was- during that period of time.