| For a number of years I have been utilizing x-ray films in the making of wearable art, primarily as a guide for locating work upon the body, and as a marker of the physicality of the body.
This current work explores the balance between excess and order, utilizing a profusion of elements placed within carefully considered organizational structures. My materials are those of a jeweler (sterling and fine silver) and a recycler (medical imaging films, primarily x-ray + MRI.) The films are marked, dyed, hand-cut, stacked, packed and anchored in place to create packets of visual information. Color, layering, transparency, multiplicity and visual complexity are my formal vocabulary. Obsession is my working method.
These packets include pictures of the interior of the body, pictures of individuals and their unique physicality. Once the cutting and organizing occurs, whispers are left of those individuals. Pale grey bones span dark backgrounds sliced and cut into quadrants of pattern; MRI images of the skull or hips leave white ovals tracing across a circle, faint reminders of the body.
My goal is to make visually rich and intellectually satisfying objects for contemplation. Objects which are poetic, not didactic; objects which ask questions, without providing answers. How to make beauty, thoughtfulness, and wonder out of discarded materials which reveal hidden, interior realms, and remind us of pathology and death
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