Part 1) Subway/Paris (see also, http://www.atylprojects.daportfolio.com/gallery/779414)
Part 2) Sovegna Vos (Be Mindful)
Part 3) The Great Composer
Selectively redacted regulations and court decisions, found historical immigration documents altered, faces in old photographs cut out or covered up – these are the motifs of the artwork in this series. “Sovegna Vos” – Be mindful – are words from Dante’s Purgatory, and used in T.S. Eliot’s poem, “Ash Wednesday”. Multi-layered, the work is about addressing one’s experiences and transcending them with new constructions, and recovery, and need for grace.
The artwork investigates conventions and cultural traditions vis-à-vis time, and challenges the binaries we re/construct between Self and Other. Each piece questions the conditions of appearance of an image, its context and tensions implicated below the surface, and the possibilities achievable through subversion.
"Because I know
that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place"
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place"
- from Ash
Wednesday, T.S. Eliot
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