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I intricately cut and fold
pages from ARTFORUM magazines to create masks and
totems. I did not
actively seek to make the masks with any particular
cultural reference in mind. Instead, I rely on my own
imagination and subconscious images of masks that I hold
in my mind's eye. Through re-contextualizing and
subverting the ARTFORUM magazine to my own ends, I
conflate socio-economic and political conditions with my
lived experience. In this way, I see the masks as “power
objects” that function in a similar way to ritual masks
and totems. The original function
of ARTFORUM as an authority of cultural production is
thwarted and, instead, it becomes an object d’art that
reads as a relic rather than a commentator. (click on picture to access large image)
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