In recent years, my artwork has been following a complex visual trail of architecture and figurative / representational elements: caryatids, columns, canephorae, baskets of produce, Corinthian capitals, acanthus, bodies, bones, bread and water.

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Caryatids and canephorae are, in many ways, the visual summation of human life and women’s fundamental role in supporting it.

 

In these excerpts from the series "Compari-sons," I pair formally and conceptually equivalent images of women, overlaying them so that there is a shifting, visual interaction. A canephora from the Vatican Museums merges with a figurine from the folk art museum in EUR, Rome. A caryatid in Munich dialogues with a woman in a bread/salt welcoming ceremony in Russia.*

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Blaise Tobia is a partial collaborator on this piece.

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*Reference: Russian Welcome, Petropavlovsk, Austronesian Expeditions / Flickr Creative Commons; educational purposes only; not for sale.