An Installation in Three Parts
In 2008 we started a conversation about the qualities of photography and encaustic, a process involving beeswax & damar resin, first used in Fayum mummy portraits in Egypt in 100-300 AD.
We became interested in how these two different processes could be joined together to speak to the idea of time. Photography as a way of bringing the moment to bear, of not losing the past, and as an ephemeral way of remembering. Encaustic, through its translucency, can allow the viewer to look back through the layers of a painting and see how each moment, each stroke, informs the present. Starting with the idea of time, we began to talk about memory and lineage.
What started out as collaboration on time, memory and lineage, has become a meditation on life itself. We have taken boxes from the attic filled with photographs, letters, ticket stubs, mementos saved through generations and then forgotten, and given them a new place in this installation.
TIME (Mid to late 1800's-2008): Receipt tape on scrolls, photo transfers, encaustic medium, 30'x15'.
LINEAGE (Eastern European Jewish immigrants): Grids of deconstructed 4"x4" photographs on Kozo paper, encaustic medium, mounted on panels, 16”x16”.
MEMORY: Photos embedded in encaustic medium and mounted on light boxes, 24'x42'.
Exhibition at the Durham Art Guild in 2008
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