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| Saffran I Wanted To Sing Like Joni Mitchell 23" x 23" sewn photographs 2016 |
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| Saffran Before We Disappointed Each Other 23" x 23" sewn photographs 2016 |
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My work continues on the series of paper quilts for the
1969 series.
I Wanted To Sing Like Joni Mitchell and
Before We Disappointed Each Other are the two most recent images pieced together from that same group of 5 snapshots (all taken at my twelfth birthday party) that the earlier two quilt pieces were made from. My goal is five new pieces to mirror the five originals. Forcing myself to meet this goal has pushed me to look and look and look again at the same few snapshots and dig beyond their surface to see what else may be there. On the face of it these source images seem to deny a deeper exploration. They are simply what they are, yellowed with age poorly composed records of one evening forty-seven years ago. The longer I study the snapshots the more detached I become from them. Its like repeating a familiar word over and over to yourself until it becomes strange and removed from its meaning. Searching the faces and analyzing the gestures of my family and preteen self I find no meaning, locate no memories. In a sort of backwards projection these snapshots have become a repository for everything I now know. Their meaning comes, not from what they literally recorded, but from all the events of my life that came after that night.
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