The world is dense and full of mystery. And the reality we construct is fragmented, incomplete and always changing, influenced by what we choose to see, read, think and experience.
Over the years I have been interested in the structures that hold and transmit knowledge. Today as the computer becomes a dominant mode, the printed book can be seen as a historical object and symbol of ideas stripped of its original use. I think of the book symbolically as I use its remnants as material for my work with other materials such as prints, paper, scrim, words, objects, photographs, and marks. A mixed media approach allows me to put together disparate “things” that have come apart, but were once traditional structures used to preserve, protect and hold.
Tara’s Take On A Tale takes the book to another place. It’s a sculptural form with an invitation to interact by reading a little book* on its backside. There’s a conceptual element to the work and it is not solely concerned with form. The two together ask the viewer to search for a standpoint—another way to relate and yet there’s a poetry that transcends the visual.
*Book Contents:
wrinkle free non-iron wrinkle free
non-iron wrinkle free non-iron
12 midnight
Shunyu Suzuki “The secret of Zen is just 2 words: Not always so.”