artist statement

Eudora Welty wrote about place as a thing that has influenced, nourished and instructed us. She further writes “man can…suffer if he’s exiled from it. [Place is] as close to our living as the earth we can pick up a rub between our fingers, something we can feel or smell”.

I leverage images one might associate with marking transitions or temporal site –construction fences, festoons, caution tape. The work’s constant thread is an inquiry into how quotidian images can explore personal circumstance and transcend themselves, a kind of “aesthetic redemption”.
– jodi hays

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