Monday 2012
Kathleen O'Connell, Peru
| Monday,
2012, Kathleen O'Connell, Lima, Perú Kathleen O'Connell has a Master of Fine Arts degree, in printmaking and book arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with concentrations in printmaking, drawing and sculpture from SUNY Plattsburgh. Using these medias, she manipulates color, pattern and form. Her work explores the human experience through whimsical ideas of memory, travel and the metaphysical. The artist lives and works in the United States of America and Peru. The unsettling shock of a car bombing: it was a Monday on al-Mutanabbi street. It was an act of violence and terror. The unsettling shock of a bicycle crash: it was a Monday in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. It was an accident. I witnessed the bicycle accident, hearing the man utter an animal groan, seeing the blood pooling in his ear, watching his confusion unfold, waiting for the ambulance to come. It was horrible to see this human hurt. In my mind this event replayed, multiplying and measuring itself. How much more was the impact of the car bomb on al-Mutanabbi street? 3 x 4.5 in (folded), 9 x 12 in (open) 7.5 x 11 cm (folded), 22 x 30 cm (open) Relief print kathleen.a.oconnell@gmail.com www.kathleenoconnell.net |