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Parent Project

This installation addresses the question "How much do our parents influence what we do in our creative lives?" And what do we do with a house full of family history when older family members pass on? The Parent Project shows my choices for depicting the influence of my parents on my live as an artist. This is not a portrait of my parents but rather a collaboration with them. To represent my mothers influence I have sewn together and suspended her collection of 322 New Yorker Magazine covers. She began collecting them in 1948 and continued to 1976. The only years missing were the ones when I was home, from 1954-1972. I was not aware of this collection until after she died but I think it functions as an illustrated timeline of social and political events of the day as well as a direct reference to her career as an illustrator and newspaper editor. I do think that my mother probably knew some of the illustrators of the New Yorker from her days with Collier magazine. The 16 foot Old Town canoe with paddles and recorded birdsongs belonged to my father. He loved the outdoors but remained a civilian to the art world. My father was supportive of my creative efforts and I have inherited his insatiable curiosity of the world around me. He also taught me to use several different tools that I use today in my studio. My presence in this installation is a single collage painting from my Linear Collage series. I was working on this series when my parents died. This painting is titled "Groovy" and was completed in 2003. The Linear Collage series explored our inherent ability to connect disparate images in search of order. It was my intent that these works encourage and promote the significance of personal interpretation.