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Kelly Parsell: Reader’s Art
Kelly Parsell Reader's Art: Longing for Home Kelly Parsell- Circulate This accordion-fold artist book explores the nostalgia and longing for our pasts. The piece highlights six different homes and their specific qualities for which the speaker/narrator still yearns. Circulate investigates the notion of “absence” and how objects, emotions, and histories can continue living on through memory. Reader's Art: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of [...]
Philip R. Luoma Anderson
Philip R. Luoma Anderson Reader's Art 12: Longing for home covers a lot of territory. Over the next few weeks I will be featuring images from the artists who are participating from close to home and as far away as France. Pictured above is an image from Changing Face of a Nation by Philip R. Luoma Anderson. In the book Adult Basic Education students who are learning English wrote a personal narrative. They wrote about their lives in their home countries, coming to the USA, their current lives, and their hopes for the future. Philip was their instructor. He wrote about [...]
Aileen Bassis
Aileen Bassis Reader's Art 12 : Longing for Home Aileen Bassis: "In 2006 I discovered that my mother was developing dementia. It was a devastating and overwhelming shock. The person that I knew my entire life was dissolving before me. As an artist, I make work about subjects that disturb and concern me and so I made art about mom and indirectly, me. All of the texts are from my conversations with her. Since I made this work, my father has passed away, and mom is now in assisted living. I visit often and listen to her rambling words and [...]