Sunday, September 2, 2007
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A la Recherché du Temps Perdu
Marcel Proust's book, A la Recherché du Temps Perdu , inspired my new work. The book's title can be translated as "In Search of Lost Time" or "Remembrance of things past". Over the past few years I have collected cast-off old furniture parts. The scuffed and worn chairs, bedposts, piano keys, table legs and stair rails are taken out of the jetsam and from the lives of strangers. Every small piece, broken and no longer functional, is derived from the daily living of ordinary people. Each item found has its own story. All the parts were once part of a whole (a kitchen table or step stool, perhaps) used to support humans in their quotidian existence. Alone and broken, they no longer had a purpose.
So, I retrieved them from the demise of their past lives and placed them together to form a proper composition. I have tried to bring these old throw-aways into the new century. By taking the broken or discarded bits and arranging them into new forms I try to show that our past is never dead. Our memories are always with us. We know our past with what remains from it. We can inform our future with those bits from the past.
So, I retrieved them from the demise of their past lives and placed them together to form a proper composition. I have tried to bring these old throw-aways into the new century. By taking the broken or discarded bits and arranging them into new forms I try to show that our past is never dead. Our memories are always with us. We know our past with what remains from it. We can inform our future with those bits from the past.