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Among other things I am an artist, recently moved from Boston, MA to Petaluma CA. I work in collage, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. A lot of my work involves found and assembled parts, often with electric, kinetic, and sonic elements.
Most of my artwork deals with issues and images relating to the body and people. I explore concepts of the body as mechanical and physical object and humans as the substance and material of art rather than just the subject. Paper dolls are an extension of my 2-D work and also relate to my other 3-D work. The dolls add a new level of interaction to my collages and straddle the line between image and object. I make sculptures in a range of materials, wire, welded steel, clay, plastic, found objects.
I believe that to become more comfortable with life and living it is absolutely necessary to bring to light and discuss as fully as possible the many human cultural hang-ups and confused perceptions of bodies and body parts. I am amazed at the beauty and intricacy of bodies and the delicate mechanics that make us function, and also at the abnormalities and peculiarities that may remind us of our mortality. At once we are just so much meat on bones, but at the same time we are living, breathing, conscious beings, and all of that meat is arranged in subtle structures that enable action, gesture, consciousness and life. My artwork is one attempt to confront these issues of the body.
This website is very much under construction, and will continue to be a work in progress. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas, please feel free to contact me.
As always, e-mail me at:
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Abrahamarama
yahoo.com
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