Work by Ceci Cole- McInturff
Sculpture, sculptural book object
Variously using steel, artist-made abaca, flax and kozo papers, cast Hydrocal, human hair, found objects, and vintage erotic photography.
Sculpture, sculptural book object
Variously using steel, artist-made abaca, flax and kozo papers, cast Hydrocal, human hair, found objects, and vintage erotic photography.
Work by Ceci Cole-McInturff
“We are who we pretend to be…” wrote novelist Kurt Vonnegut in Mother Night, first published in 1961. I have ‘pretended to be’ several people thus far in life, am living with having experienced transformations with and without intention, for both better and worse. I integrate lessons from having done so into my creative work.
Perceiving a medium’s or object’s energies, singly and in combination, and establishing comfort with risk-taking, are key parts of my work process.
What I produce is about what I observe within human connection: patterns, cycles, systems. I am attracted to what we know but are reticent to focus on, and inner identity: recognition, exercise of personal power, acceptance, aspects of fallible self, transformation. Implicit in this is achieving for a viewer some moment of intimacy.
None of the work directly reports my own life, but uses its perspective to investigate certain inner stages and awarenesses I believe others may experience.
The complete Vonnegut quote is “We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” For me it is a useful reality test to submit to each time I make a piece of art. Who am I pretending to be? What am I pretending to know? Why am I communicating what I am with these materials? If I relinquish attempts to direct or control, where else might we go?
Perceiving a medium’s or object’s energies, singly and in combination, and establishing comfort with risk-taking, are key parts of my work process.
What I produce is about what I observe within human connection: patterns, cycles, systems. I am attracted to what we know but are reticent to focus on, and inner identity: recognition, exercise of personal power, acceptance, aspects of fallible self, transformation. Implicit in this is achieving for a viewer some moment of intimacy.
None of the work directly reports my own life, but uses its perspective to investigate certain inner stages and awarenesses I believe others may experience.
The complete Vonnegut quote is “We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” For me it is a useful reality test to submit to each time I make a piece of art. Who am I pretending to be? What am I pretending to know? Why am I communicating what I am with these materials? If I relinquish attempts to direct or control, where else might we go?
