WAR CHEST SERIES
This award winning series hatched full blown in the summer of 1997. While certainly these works express a continuing concern with the issues of war, they are more raw and confrontational than anti-war work from the past. While technically these are assemblages, they seem like books to me. They were conceived as book structures, having covers, spines and interiors that must be accessed by the viewer, one section at a time.
Pieces in this series:
This award winning series hatched full blown in the summer of 1997. While certainly these works express a continuing concern with the issues of war, they are more raw and confrontational than anti-war work from the past. While technically these are assemblages, they seem like books to me. They were conceived as book structures, having covers, spines and interiors that must be accessed by the viewer, one section at a time.
I had been studying the holocaust for nearly a year for a major bookwork that I would finish by 1998. I approached my holocaust study in the same way as I begin the research for the literary sculptures. I read Delbo, Weisel, Speigelman, the text of Shoah, and others; the great writers of that time, not the historians. Perhaps historians can help us understand why holocausts happen. Until that magical time when we can say without doubt it will never happen again, it behooves us to do all we can to prevent the carnage.
This is what I chose to do...art work that screams.
