Reagan Lake
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW applying the principles of the Rhizome to the idea of an individual having multiple belongings. It creates a strong visual to see the many sites for common ground in the spaces between borders of identiHication.
You often allow an open reading, a great multiplicity of meanings: associative possibilities seems to play a crucial role in your pieces. How important is this degree of openness?
Making work that is open and multivalent is very important to me. It is my way of grappling with and processing ideas associated with hybridity and Rhizomatic thought. I do this both in terms the materials I use and in relation to the meaning of my work. Porcelain has association with craft but also luxury. Josiah Wedgewood, who famously made manufactured functional ware as well as reHined‘ artistic’ work, was also an abolitionist and made the anti-slavery medallion Am I Not A Man and a Brother? Textiles as a conveyor meaning, has associations with femininity, sewing, luxury, industry, and slavery( to name a few). I am interested in creating a visual language that is speciHic in terms of my identity formations and experiences but that can also be a site where meaning can be found for other people and engage with broader discourses about migrations of
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