Artist Statement
The Family of Man In Watercolor
To date, this body of work is composed of two distinct series, The Bruised Fruit and A Temporal Slice. While both series embody themes particular to themselves, they both reflect the interrelationships of man, and in this sense they are oneThe Bruised Fruit
The people in the ‘Bruised Fruit’ paintings are fragile, but tough. They are beautiful, but their beauty is intimately bound to their travails. Each has a multitude of stories to tell, stories of fatigue, struggle, love, joy, disappointment, and sometimes a life’s worth of hard times.
In ‘Bruised Fruit’, I am creating a population of individuals. Together, they become a narrative. When displayed together each is looking at another, some looking out to the viewer. I capture a precise moment in time, the casual gesture or sideways glance of an individual. Each piece is linked, a different dynamic every time depending on how the works are arranged and who is seeing them. The viewer becomes part of the population, creating a living communication that reverberates between the pieces. A social situation is created, in which each person or the essence of each person is singular yet working within a community.
Images
from The Family of Man exhibit, August 2010, at Pump Project
in Austin, Texas:
