Staying Current

I am an avid reader, and follow the news daily. I am often struck by how, despite its poignancy, I feel empathetic to an article and its accompanying photograph, yet immediately able to move on with my day. I endeavored to recreate color photographs from the NY Times, but in B&W. My practice was to cover a linen board with powdered charcoal and use erasure as a way to find the image through negative spaces. The nubby quality of the linen repelled the charcoal, creating works that are even more blurred and obscured than the pixelate photos from which they are borrowed. In doing so, I added further distance from the actual event, reminding myself and my viewer how removed we are from the pain that exists all around us.