LEND ME YOUR HAND

Overall, my career has been formed by using found objects or reusing objects that appear in my life. The material is used to help me grow, going from now to the new. One needs to ask what specific thing needs to change? And then, how will I make that change? What materials will be needed? What materials carry that meaning?

Non-ART materials became very popular during the 1960s and 1970s. (The woman’s movement, and feminist.) I used found materials as a child (mud pies) and then as a student. Eventually using them during the Feminist art movement after reading everything that was published. ANYTIME an artist has no money, nontraditional materials are used. Picasso used them during WWII, in Paris. Louise Nevelson used wood because of her budget, while in New York.

The language paintings follow that path because I gather language from the people, then apply it to canvas. This was one of my first projects on canvas, and it developed from a previous project of drawing on Sheetrock. I’d been working with paper, drawing, watercolor, and collage almost all of my life because I had children. Drawing is flexible, it fits the mother’s schedule. I began to exploit that aspect. I evaluated what I needed to draw; What needs to be said? (I needed to use the alphabet.)
Why is this important? and What materials make it SEEN?