Private spirits

I present this work as a testimony of my private spirit, to lend a quiet order to the complexity of parts and a subtle balance to apparent contradictions. It is my intention to pictorialize restlessness structured in two dimensional ambiguity, involving the viewers in visual uncertainty. It is my objective to create work which portrays harmony through an enigmatic arrangement and order of the formal parts. By juxtaposing seemingly unrelated elements within an unrecognizable perspective of two dimensional space, I aim to invite viewers beyond subjective appraisal. I wish to converse silently with viewers in a language which engages them intimately with the picture plane, while attempting to insure their psychologic distance. The intent is to beckon the viewer forward to the work by virtue of a first impression of an unexplained void and, hopefully, as a result of close inspection, the viewer becomes engaged in a visual inquiry and excavation of the vital elements. It is my intent to have an orchestration of value, chroma and varying intensities integral to the voice of the work which serves to call the viewer in close from their physical distance. The different strata of typography, iconography and surface scarring rendered in mixed media is an effort to present visual ambiguity as they simultaneously support and contradict the two dimensionality of the picture plane The alignment of physical elements on the picture plane, as well as their relative scale, desire to create the structural support which bridges abstract meaning to visual metaphor. The horse icon is of great personal significance as it is the messenger of much that has been within my experience and vision. It encompasses, for me, all that is sublime and innocent, yet its lack of common language, distinctiveness and exclusion guarantees its distance. The work represented in this series is born out of a desire to create a pared, simplified, formal order to the picture plane without abandoning visual complexity of parts. This document in itself is a contradiction to what I believe is the overt intention of my work.California State University, Northridge. Department of Art

Reading: Jacqueline Osherow

In this recording from March 31, 2009 during the 40th Annual UND Writers Conference, “Wit,” Jacqueline Osherow reads “Ch’vil Schreiben a Poem auf Yiddish,” “Science Psalm,” “Analfabeta,” “Hearing News from the Temple Mount in Salt Lake City,” “Slim Fantasia on a Few Words from Hosea,” “Snorkeling at Coral Beach/Fish in the Torah,” “Egrets in Be’er Sheva,” and “Variations on Variations.” Introduction by Heidi Czerwiec

Mother and Whore: The Role of Woman in <i>The Homecoming</i>

IN THE HOMECOMING THE CHARACTERS of Ruth and of Jessie, the dead mother, demonstrate a strange dichotomy in the concept of the female as both vacillate between the role of mother and the role of whore. This is, of course, not the only time Pinter explores this psychological area, but in no other play, including The Lover, does he place such emphasis upon the ambiguous role of the woman. </jats:p