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I began painting wall-sized
murals on vinyl in 2001. The murals show my shock and
sorrow at a world inflicted by war, ethnic struggles,
terrorism and global unrest. Although these are inspired
by my experience surviving and observing the calamities
brought on by a modern world of conflict, which includes
the Holocaust, September 11th, and the Columbia Space
Shuttle disaster, they are also a means by which I hope
to call attention to the relationships of contemporary
strife - between progress and destruction, between
future and past.
I mix techniques used in historical mural painting with
the large scale and powerful format of billboard
advertising. Using collage and digital printing in
addition to painting, I am attempting to combine
personal memories of disaster with images of more recent
global confrontations. I hope my assemblage of images,
words, and “passages” from many different areas suggests
that there can be a unity amongst divergent elements,
the final product giving this concept an importance on
both an individual and a universal level. |
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