Recent projects explore symbolic language and in particular, Braille. I use it as a symbol of cultural blindness, social, political and in one instance I have used it to refer to the blindness of love.
Foreign Aid , 2003
Gwen Ifill recently interviewed the Carters on PBS. Jimmy Carter made the remark that for every dollar
of Foreign Aid the U. S. donated, Norway was giving seventeen. I decided to investigate. What I found was illuminating. The U.S. is dead last of 22 industrialized nations in foreign aid donations relative to gross domestic product. What a shame. The internet has thousands of sites with statistics, most of them quite alarming. I once read a definition of beauty as a purely aesthetic response, a disinterested observation, objective and objectifying. Statistics too put us at a remove. How can we put a face on the numbers we read about daily? How much cultural and personal identity have we invested in the remove that disinterested beauty and compressed data provides? If we define beauty to include engagement, could or would our relationship to the world and its issues change?
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Foreign Aid, Part A Pit fired stoneware |
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Foreign Aid, Part B Pit fired stoneware |
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Foreign Aid, Part 4 & 5 Wood/soda fired porcelain |
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