The artwork in this portfolio is all connected in some way to a film slide I found in a second-hand shop many years ago. The original image is a black and white slide of 9 young women posed together in their parochial, high school outfits circa the 1950's. This image has captivated me since about 2003 when I first started making art about it, and continues to draw me in. I am intrigued by their body language, the facial expression in this one instant, what are their individual stories, what precipice are they standing at the brink of? I am compelled to dramatize their inner worlds, to superimpose my own memories upon them and to explore larger themes of womanhood and body language through the little hints I receive from this single moment in time.
“Photo transfer of original slide”
“Pillowfaces”
“Pillowfaces (detail)”
“Pillowfaces (detail)”
“I Remember”
“I Remember (detail of text)”
“I Remember (detail of faces)”
“The Promise of Perfection”
“The Promise of Perfection (detail)”
“Contained”
“Contained (detail)”
“Sway, touch”
“Strength in Numbers”
“Five young women with hairstyles removed”
“The Space Between Us”
