Sweet Pea
In a constant genesis, patterns develop from forms, figures materialize behind them and begin to create new patterns from which other things can emerge. The patterning becomes camouflage and acts as both protection and confinement for the disruptive objects, the intaglio prints of freudian figures placed on top of the fabric. On an adjacent wall the fabric is repeated, carefully draped with undulating, soft, sensuous curves. The patterns relate back to one another and create a complete, yet disconcerting environment.
In Sweet Pea (a 2020 show at the University of Iowa in the Ana Mendienta Gallery), the rigidity of pattern is contrasted by the interruptions and mutations that take place within the repeat. The imagery is unshackled in instances of asymmetry and breakages that defy the conventions of pattern. Within the structure of a repeat, the interruptions allow the work to embody the conflation of expression and repression that can be found within the female figure, and the paradox of liberation defined by bounds.Â
In Sweet Pea (a 2020 show at the University of Iowa in the Ana Mendienta Gallery), the rigidity of pattern is contrasted by the interruptions and mutations that take place within the repeat. The imagery is unshackled in instances of asymmetry and breakages that defy the conventions of pattern. Within the structure of a repeat, the interruptions allow the work to embody the conflation of expression and repression that can be found within the female figure, and the paradox of liberation defined by bounds.Â
