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Quiet Assimilation is a precursor to the Community Structure Series,
a series of forms that looks at possibilities within social or community
structures. Q.A. begins to look at what happens to individuals bound
to a specific group, at adaptation and assimilation and one degree
of the fine line between them.
The overall reality of this group was determined from the beginning
to be rectangular. However, the core or the beginning of each of
the 12 individuals that construct this quilt is circular, a doily.
Each of the 12, very similar in construct, attempts to assert individuality
via crocheted-in detail, protruding form, and original color. The
coloring cycle of translucent clear fiberglass, which has natural
greenish look, to painted-on contrasting enamel to the final solution
also follow an assertion of will to a quiet and quieting assimilation.
As it must be, the cycle continues to gravitate home, to the original
construct of neutral rectangle as negotiations within continue and
continue to loose.
As a side note, there is an interesting question of identity that
comes directly from the nature of the work itself. As this craft-based,
enamel-painted, fiberglass form hangs on the wall, supported by
its own shadows, the issue of “what is it” comes up.
Is it craft; is it fiber art; is it sculpture; does it want to be
a painting? Is identity, the true self, the fiberglass object or
the shadow that it casts.
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