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søren k. harbel's avatar

Stella, I really enjoy how you see and make these super collages. Thank you for sharing!

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Paul Lichtenberg, PhD's avatar

Hi Stella,

The timing of your new post is synchronous. My dear friend Virginia has a new collage piece at The Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) in upstate NY. The exhibition is called simply `The Rose.' Curated by the artist Justine Kurland and curator Marina Chao. What i love about the show and your work is that they are integrative expressions of an iterative process of healing. Kurland wrote that collage is

'Radical and political by its cut-apart and dissonant nature [and] urges us to honor revision and reprisal as correctives for the skewed lenses that distort our worldview.” Iterative in this context refers to " where one thing turns into another, replacing hierarchies with cyclical, organic, and revolutionary energy." The healing, therapeutic or "corrective" aspect is "cutting, ripping, and rending apart the whole, necessitating the reparative act of gluing, binding, and assembling things into a new unity."

Though the `Rose' exhibition is "feminist collage," the healing process of artistic expression, including collage, as you know, is universal.

Your work is stunning, Stella, on Sundays and all days. Thank you for bringing expression to many who seek to identify and name their own experiences of suffering and joy.

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