With Feet Opposite: March 2018​
Collagraph prints on Thai kozo with ink, charcoal, pigment and porcelain

I cannot experience both right and wrong in full clarity as the act of one influences my perception of the other. The moment before and the moment after is revealed in With Feet Opposite installed in Wings Court, New Bedford with the better-to-ask-for- forgiveness-than-permission technique. The title is from the Latin word antipodes, meaning places diametrically opposed to each other (on the globe), or direct opposites. This term is commonly used in New Zealand and Australia when referring to the northern hemisphere. Stretching this metaphor into my work, With Feet Opposite is arranged around a physical barrier – a wall where you cannot see the other side, it lies in the imagination akin to an open window of possibility, I am reminded of Carl Sandburg’s 1916 poem At a Window. 

At a Window
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow. Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.
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Installed in Wings Court, New Bedford, Massachusetts