Mixed Media Collage
1.5’x1.5′
2013
With Specimens of Memory, I continue my exploration of text as material and follow the wandering line of cursive that leads me on this journey. These collages rework text drawings from my previous series Are YouWriting This Down?
My original drawings were intensively altered as I made hundreds of extra marks, added more writing, and coated the papers in wax and paint. The already unintelligible lines of continuous cursive handwriting grew increasingly obliterated. Meanings were rendered more obscure then fragmented yet again by cut and reassembly. The resulting collages illustrate thinking and remembering based on what it feels like to do so.
I’m curious as to whether an artistic, intuitive, embodied approach to “visualizing the mind” can yield different understandings than a scientific, empirical, mechanical one. And I wonder: how do these points of view inform one another?