The Nested Selves: Diagrams
2009
The Nested Selves: Diagrams, 2009
Drawings
Artist statement:
“The Nested Selves was composed as a journey into the Self, and begins with the conical as a moving vortex. Each persona is gradually revealed through a series of monologues, interactions with visitors in studio performances, and in public interventions.
In my performances, installations and videos, I recite and improvise a narrative that is referential to autobiographical and historical accounts I associate with each persona character. The “Theater of Self”, is a script that grows with each persona performance that brings further definition to each individual character.
I draw maps, constructions, and figures in motion within landscapes and virtual spaces; craft paper conical models and string balls into globular loops and knots that visualize an entangled journey. I interact with audience members using these props as devices to explain my ideas and as props to identify the personas characteristics.”
An element of the artist’s larger series The Nested Selves, Staged as part of as part of the larger exhibition of work, Theater of Self, at the ICA in Portland, Maine in 2009 as part of:
The Maine College of Art (MECA)’s 2009 MFA Thesis exhibition
May 9—June 7, 2009
An exhibition of work by students who are graduating from the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts program.
