A.D.D.G.
A Love That Should
Have Lasted (in
memory of a Diasporist
Painter)
A Love That Should
Have Lasted (in
memory of a Diasporist
Painter)
| A Love That Should Have Lasted (in memory of a Diasporist Painter), 2008, Paper mache, 136 x 112 x 127 inches |
The Mobile:
A Love That Should Have Lasted (in memory of a Diasporist Painter), 2008
I have been meditating of the recent death of painter R.B. Kitaj. His work inspired me as a young artist to dream the role of a literary painter. Formally I love his
use of color and electric compositions; and beyond the canvas is the page, where Kitaj wrote (and sometimes ranted) about the role of a “diasporist artist.”
The phrase “A love that should have lasted” comes from the upper left-hand corner of the painting/drawing “The Second Portal (eye).” It is equally melancholy
and stoic.
Formally, I wanted to work with words in sculpture at a scale many times grander than I had previously in my work in wire filigree. The materials are not new to
me: the forms are built from wire mesh and newspaper layered into papier mache and glue.
The mobile suggests both weight, literally – how does “A” balance with “should” -- as well as levity in its associations to childhood mobiles.
A Love That Should Have Lasted (in memory of a Diasporist Painter), 2008
I have been meditating of the recent death of painter R.B. Kitaj. His work inspired me as a young artist to dream the role of a literary painter. Formally I love his
use of color and electric compositions; and beyond the canvas is the page, where Kitaj wrote (and sometimes ranted) about the role of a “diasporist artist.”
The phrase “A love that should have lasted” comes from the upper left-hand corner of the painting/drawing “The Second Portal (eye).” It is equally melancholy
and stoic.
Formally, I wanted to work with words in sculpture at a scale many times grander than I had previously in my work in wire filigree. The materials are not new to
me: the forms are built from wire mesh and newspaper layered into papier mache and glue.
The mobile suggests both weight, literally – how does “A” balance with “should” -- as well as levity in its associations to childhood mobiles.