For the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to investigate my interior life. It goes with the very cold and dark of the season. Sliding by the winter solstice this year was a trip worth a memoir entry. To begin with I created a Holy-Family tableau in the WINDOW of the emerging artspace at 126 Main Street in Northampton, Massachusetts. I titled the work “Holy-Family as Set in Darfur” and it consisted of two figures about 5′4″ and 6′ respectively. The smaller, maternal figure holds a baby in her arms. The objects are made of joined wood and are torched to a charcoal black. I believe that tragedies such as that in Darfur show how when one people suffer another people gain. In this case, since so much of the historical legacy that produced conditions leading to the genocide of the Furs by the Sudanese government and the Janjaweed belongs to the results of 19th century European colonialism and 20th century Western war, the suffering of the Furs are evidence in reverse of our great wealth. How fitting a remebrance is this at a season of our tremendous consumerist excess? Once the family was placed in situ, I had the collaborative participation of Gordon Thorne who built fine junk pile animals sculptures to visit the Holy-Family. Let a picture and a link suffice for now. See more at http://www.tillyervision.com and follow links
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