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Jennie
Hinchcliff We look to a book on the physical plane as a
carrier of knowledge, a treasure chest where we can pass secrets to future
generations. On a spiritual level books represent the passage of time, a
seemingly tangible reminder of the lessons that have come before us and the
wisdom we have yet to learn. All of these worlds as well as many other things
reside between the covers of a book. The book as a form is thousands of years
old; it is being tested and re-thought by artists every day Artists can always tell when the moment of
connection happens with a viewer: they linger with every page, reading as if
they were tasting all the words. They will feel the paper, run their hands over
and through all of the different textures that the book has to offer. They will
question the structure, wondering aloud how it works, why the artist wanted to
do it that way. The viewer will look at the text on the page and how it falls
there. In short, they fall in love with the artwork, and it engages them on a
new and completely unexpected level. The book can be as precious or as common
as the artist dictates; it is at once full of contradictions and answers,
perhaps to questions different than those the reader/viewer is asking of it. Within my work I seek to introduce the
reader/viewer to a sense of vague unrest . The subject matter is eternal,
elemental, and at times alchemical, created through a distillation process of
feeling and technique. Jennie Hinchcliff 415.846.7458 Studio space #124 at The Art Explosion mistercrumpus@hotmail.com |
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