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Cover Girls are electronic paintings. They are constructed with interior images and maps in serial structures. Frames of the original media are recaptured and recreated in a set of imaged tiles. The frames are sequenced back into movie clips. The canvases chart multiple layers of meanings that exist between the life of each woman and the various histories that she shapes. My ambition is to realign our values of description with our sense of understanding. Much of the way the world comes to us in media is through inverted descriptions of what we are really experiencing; questions of truth are enmeshed in questions of fiction.
In a nationally broadcast interview, Barbara Walters asked Monica Lewinski to define her motives. Lewinski replied, “Everyone needs a little normalcy...” Walters questioned further, “isn’t that for a wife to offer?” Monica shaking her head replied, “That’s for him to answer...”
That’s for Him to Answer... is created from the Walter’s interview. The work is visualized in the images from the famous tie Monica gave Clinton, which he wore to the Rose Garden as a secret message of solidarity. The gift of the tie was exposed later that day in Monica’s FBI testimony. The labyrinthian icon in the tie and in the canvas historically symbolizes Jason searching for the Golden Fleece, and the four and five pointed stars symbolize Aphrodite. Our protagonists. The five-pointed star refers to a five-sided form, a pentagon, and so on, the icons mapping a parallel story through the processes of art.
Martha Stewart returns to television from prison with a collection of 165 real live Martha Stewarts in her audience.
Martha is visually re-quilted in 50,000 gingerbread cookies and crumbs, the sum of her insider profit.
The work looks beneath the surface of official stories and received histories, and gazes toward the discovery of the social and political processes that shape the roles and relationships of people and power ...with some humor.
Dynamic image sequence cross dissolve engine was created by Adam Smith.
Contact Patti Ambrogi at
pjapph(at)rit.edu
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