EXHIBITION PREVIEW
“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
ARTIST STATEMENT
The Chinese have called my work “poetic roaming”. After my 2016 exhibition in Shenzhen, China I received a gift that redirected my work for the next three years. Another pathway was forged. Poetry ties it all together.
Life is one big collage in the making. Events are layered without a plan.. One can sense that the universe is in charge. The same feeling pervades the studio atmosphere. Life is sliced and diced with abandon until order needs to happen. My collage aesthetic and love of poetry encourages happenings where the end is never the end and can be a beginning.
Work done under this edict/umbrella/method is varied in mood, execution and format. I invite you to wander through this offering, sense the intangible history where events or outcomes lead to the previously unknowable.
I have pulled into the mix work from as early as 2002 with most created in 2017. The theme the tea bowl links this selection of twenty-one artworks and many were inspired by my personal collection. In sharp contrast, several monumental hangings rely on improvisational packing tape collages and drawings. Imperfection is valued in all my work as shown in the details. In many instances imperfection has been elevated to be the subject itself.
Joan Schulze