Boundaries
2008. Waterworks Visual Art Center, Salisbury, NC.
This is a site specific work. The images were selected, arranged and sized to fit these galleries. When I first saw the space, the wall down the middle seemed to be a real obstruction. The theme of walls or boundaries came immediately to mind. Hence, I started with the Great Wall and the Berlin Wall. We build walls to keep people in and walls to keep people out - walls that are real and walls that are figurative.
The large, massed together pictures are meant to enclose you - perhaps imprisoning you. I select images that strongly appeal to me. The selection and placement is intuitive. Look for patterns and postures which repeat or relate from image to image.
You and I probably see more images in a day than people in the nineteenth century saw in a lifetime. I hope to make some sense of this visual clutter. The black and white pictures are from newspapers, magazines, and the internet. The colored ones are from art history. In the process, I discover that human nature changes little over time. -- Anne Kesler Shields
This is a site specific work. The images were selected, arranged and sized to fit these galleries. When I first saw the space, the wall down the middle seemed to be a real obstruction. The theme of walls or boundaries came immediately to mind. Hence, I started with the Great Wall and the Berlin Wall. We build walls to keep people in and walls to keep people out - walls that are real and walls that are figurative.
The large, massed together pictures are meant to enclose you - perhaps imprisoning you. I select images that strongly appeal to me. The selection and placement is intuitive. Look for patterns and postures which repeat or relate from image to image.
You and I probably see more images in a day than people in the nineteenth century saw in a lifetime. I hope to make some sense of this visual clutter. The black and white pictures are from newspapers, magazines, and the internet. The colored ones are from art history. In the process, I discover that human nature changes little over time. -- Anne Kesler Shields