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AMAZU
My current work consists of ten mixed media pieces done in large panoramic format. The work is done with painting, drawing, scissor cut forms, and fragments of mass media images. It's completed on computer and printed in pigment.
I take images from magazines, newspapers, and the street. I also paint
and draw on different materials which I cut into. Sometimes a piece begins
with painting and the images follow; sometimes, the reverse. A particular
image will take precedence and everything evolves from it.
Working in my studio surrounded by the many layers of images I've collected,
I often think of the Jorge Luis Borges short story, "The Aleph," in which
a man discovers beneath the stairs of a house, "a point in space that
contains all other points…everything in the universe seen from every angle
simultaneously." The attraction of collage is that it allows me to indulge
in my compulsion to merge all of my outward interests--from cosmology
to politics to mass culture--together with all of my inward thoughts and
emotions "simultaneously" in a two dimensional work.
So I've titled this new group of work "AMAZU," a name from the Ibo of Nigeria that means "no one knows everything."
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