Your Words in My Mouth, 2020
Your Words in My Mouth was a series that explored deception and lies. The entry to the gallery was a wall with portraits of a notable liars, and a self portrait. The portraits are like the thesis statement of the exhibit.
Following the portraits, a room filled with sculptures and prints that explore the themes of deception, of shaping reality with one’s words.
There’s this psychological phenomenon where you dream of a home--a childhood home, an apartment you lived in--revisiting the old home to find it changed, smaller or larger. To me, these dreams feel like revisiting the small houses you must keep filed away, homes from the past reduced to dollhouses in their expansiveness and perfection. For me, I have a dream where I discover the single story house has a second level, an expansion of the space, a reinvention. The house as a version of the self I use in a variety of the sculptures and prints, with stairs as a means to explore the inner workings of that house. Physical thread is used as a metaphor for story, as it often is, both one’s own story and other’s.
Along the long wall of the gallery are several small, 10 by 8 inch, drypoint intaglios. The houses These drypoints are all images of dollhouses depicted as though they might be real homes, chairs, and staircases.
