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I am an artist and a photographer
whose work for many years centered around the subject of
homelessness in America, particularly as it impacted on
the lives of women. As part of that work I traveled around
the country interviewing and photographing homeless women
in America. This work, entitled Shopping Bag Ladies: Homeless
Women Speak About Their Lives was published by Pilgrim Press.
One of the interviews in the book was subsequently made
into a CBS movie starring Lucille Ball. I mention this work
in order to explain a little about my background and its
relationship to my present work. My recent work employs
a combination of photography and painting. Large scale images
are altered by a variety of techniques including the use
of paints, inks, dyes, hand coloring, and darkroom manipulation.
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In the past
two years I have been photographing in the interiors of
a series of 27 abandoned buildings at a mill in Western
Massachusetts. The mill has now been converted into one
of the largest museums in the United States. In my work,
figures in interior space investigate the bits of life and
history that remain in these deteriorating rooms - of people
having lived, and worked in a particular space. This work
is concerned with the ephemeral nature of physical existence
and seeks to depict all that goes on in a room for which
we have no words. The aim is to evoke interiors of the mind,
worlds where what is unspoken and unseen becomes tangible,
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Most recently
I have Begun a project to photograph clouds. This is an
unusual direction for me, but it's something I have wanted
to do since I first began to photograph. I am interested
in the infinite variety, shapes and structure of the clouds.
To me, they are poetry made visible and I have sought
to portray how they are tied to the earth forming another
sort of landscape America.
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