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| Can't Control The Fear |
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| Memories |
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| Janice DeLoof |
Recurring images of furniture and various utilitarian objects are symbols and signs from my own personal vocabulary of memories used to create visual narratives on painted wood or embossed paper. Small mise-en-scenes portrayed by miniature tables and chairs depict—through the disruption of habits—the tension and drama that lies underneath family life.”*These works are storyboard like scenes of family stories told with furniture in different modes and positions representing the actors.
Some of the assembled installations like Family Secrets, Every 17 Minutes and sculptures of The Archetypal Game Table are constructs - part theater, part gameboard - that play with notions of self-identification and dialogue, using art as a framing device. are constructs - part theater, part gameboard - that play with notions of self-identification and dialogue, using art as a framing device.
The art begins the conversation about feelings and relationships; the mind of the viewer completes it. Conversation both private and public is an exchange - an attempt by the individual to integrate or reconcile with others in the community. To converse is to identify one’s self in relation to another person or idea. Art becomes a tool for investigating the structures of social interaction.
*Christine Valentine, co-curator with John O’Brien, Domestication of Space: Twice Re:moved at the Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA.
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