Amalgamation

Here are some images from latest work.

And a few notes here copied from my sketchbook

'At last I am tacklingthe issue of MATERIAL AS SUBJECT.
The 'collage' needs to be brought further into the centre of the process. 

Tearing of the many photocopies from the album and loose Noskwith/Saksoshansky photos/ postcard copies important to reflect upon.
The very act of tearing is the key.

It allows for the idea of forced fragmentation - the pulling apart of the family from home/each other. The pain of my heritage in Lodz/Odessa/Chemnitz.

And then

The business of processing (digesting?) the fear of what has happened and making a new story, that  celebrates survival.

​The bucket is full of water and the little pieces are scattered in. Like a cookery session. Then LEFT.
Like time - space to age/change

Overnight and through several days PROCESSING happens.
Softening of the dispersed pieces - mixed up images. Located by chance one next to another in confusion. Akin to childhood confusion about silences, gaps, FRAGMENTS.

Then pulling these out to remake, remould into a new AMALGAMATED object. A survival piece. An object that puts the pieces back together again....