Units of Understanding and Increments of Meaning

The art is a document of material innovation and thematic investigation. The work is a deliberate meditation on media images that informs the viewers of particular episodes in current events. In this body of work, each bead stands for a unit of understanding, while the rendered image becomes an increment of meaning adding to the multiple meanings that already exist in collective memory.  My contribution to this dialogue is in the act of making these images; each image of the event has to be broken down to small pieces to facilitate consumption and then recreated to arrive at a personal resolution, an incremental addition to its significance. Each piece from this series employs this strategy, using beads as units of understanding and creating incremental meaning expanding the experience of the larger socio-political events.

Indeed, the fragmentary images presents reflects a critique of media reportage and its fractured attempts at creating meaning of everyday events.  It is in this kind of critique that art becomes a powerful tool to alternative understanding and meaning.  Each of the artwork becomes a unit of understanding adding an increment of meaning to our collective consciousness.