Statement…so far

Hey guys,

Here is the beginning of an artist’s statement. Thought it would help some of you to understand my purposes in using the patchwork technique.

“Piecemeal” is an abstract drawing based upon cartography. The first step of the process was to create several drawings of a world map from memory, without a visual reference. The resulting images were tragically incorrect, due to my own lack of knowledge concerning geography. I then cut the drawing into squares and reassembled them. This absurd attempt to “correct” the drawing rendered it even more inaccurate, resulting in multiple images of many states and countries and skewed borders that cause the map to be nearly unrecognizable. This process is meant to address the serious lack of information that many Americans possess concerning the events surrounding the Iraq war, due to the misinformation that we are fed and to an education system that in many ways is failing us. Many Americans are trying to piece together an understanding of the world with fragments of incorrect information. The result is a disturbingly deluded perspective of the world, which this extremely distorted map represents.