Out of catastrophe comes opportunity. Issues can be located through the pared-down
visual strategy of a monochrome. I lifted the pages of a disfigured book with tape, adhering
them to a panel in a layered, linear structure. While working with Jess Wells’ book, Home
Fronts, I began to notice how the fragments of language accumulated. It spoke of the
environmental intolerance within our collective home—American culture. It made available
a comprehensive view of the landscape of discourse around homosexuality and parenting.
The language was descriptive of the amnesty of familiar actions, validations and the turmoil
of unnecessary burdens. Provocations and questions are what I ask as a viewer of an
artwork; the beauty of a complex articulation. In using this text as material for the painting,
I experienced the everyday heroic of others who live a conscious life and acknowledge the
sculptural nature of actions played out across time. Reinscribing an action that’s based on
erasure, into an opportunity for tolerance and the exercise of creative will, is the theft of
a vandal’s crime.
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