a slow process

I am getting ready, again, to participate in the 2010 Toronto Artists Project.

This will be my third year in this show- and since 2007, it is the only show I have participated in.

It's a slow build-up- layers and surfaces; building and destroying work to make new work. With each series, I get closer to knowing something about what I am doing, and why.

Last year's work centered on construction and deconstruction.

This year: story and re-story.

What is the process and effect of story, and story-image. If a picture paints a thousand words, then the question is: Which thousand words?

What are the workings of memory, language and image? How do we select, edit and alter our experiences of the past? How does this effect what we see, and how we remember what we see?

My experience of seeing is mediated by speed- I see while in motion, traveling by motorcycle, or car, or plane- in transit from one space to the next, I collect impressions of things. Patterns emerge- lines, grids, vents, openings into space, unexpected colours. I become aware of the intentional design of things.

My new work is a reflection of this...

Comments

[Chris Hagan]

Thanks for turning me on to Tori Amos

[Nina]

Seeing your work is like a revelation: it's leather, no metal no....canvas? Unbelievable. You're singing a fresh, new song, using unusual notes which combined produce a new way of making paint-and-canvas soar.