The Vignette Series
In the Vignette series I use printed vignettes from French 18th Toile de Jouy and early American patterns on paper and juxtapose drawn images from contemporary life and daily news stories.
Like a sound bite, tweet or brief wire news update, these vignettes show a brief incident, scene or narrative that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper. It is in our consciousness for a second until the next news flash or viral YouTube video comes into our conscious space for a nanosecond.
As in my New American Toile series and the New American Toile Remnants series, these works reconsider the relationship between what remains, what is scrapped and what is made new in society’s collective consciousness, if only for a brief moment.
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