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Here are rundowns on a couple of recent projects that have yet to be included in my body of work. I’ll start at the beginning:
First, The Frozen Section. This was a complex, you-had-to-be-there kind of project. It was heavily layered both formally and conceptually. It begins with the memory of my father’s battle with, and death from cancer. During his illness he went blind, couldn’t form sentences, and generally deteriorated.
Below is a somewhat lengthy summary of the ideas swarming around my current projects. The next few entries will have summaries of the recent projects.
Andre Bazin suggested that “…at the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as dependent on the continued existence of the corporeal body” (Trachtenberg 237). Bazin explains death as something that conquers time, but preservation of the body is something that removes an individual from the persistence of time. Art is one way in which this mummy complex manifests itself, a way for artists and culture alike to have an existence beyond the life of their own body.
