Day 82 October 25, 2010

self portrait 2007  Ross Creek, Nova Scotia group exhibit

This was how the process unfolded for this self portrait destined for the Ross Creek exhibit [there were also preliminary incarnations that were dropped by the wayside]: 

cut up paper photos, attach to red willow branches with double sided carpet tape, choose reunion photos, wedding photos, your children's photos, yoga photos, write on the clay vase in purple ink, freely associate as you go, not knowing what you'll write until you see it in front of you, but you have an idea in mind, to share your life, place the vase on a heavy roll of newsprint that appears to be a good imitation of a marble column, be grateful when the high wind doesn't tear off the photos when you deliver the piece to the gallery, laugh when Terry, the curator, tells you,  "that winter has come" a few weeks after the opening, this means that the photos are starting to drop from the branches, ...how natural.