SO I WAS, LIKE
This ongoing project plays with the current, overused idiom like,
a seemingly benign word that has come to serve several purposes.
It has become a buffer providing a pause before the speaker must
commit to a particular feeling. It mitigates the adjective about
to be used. And finally, it acts as a reticence to state something
with clarity.
As a lapsed English major I have frequently,
in my studio practice, embraced text as image, incorporating not
only words, but quotations, adages, and poetry. SO I WAS, LIKE
.
continues this trajectory as it relates to language/image/text,
and now highlights my own feelings both past and present.
Memories converge
. Sometimes
collide and consume each other, sometimes stay hidden for years
and become mind mulch. But emotions lie in the wake, leave a residue,
and dictate our states of mind.
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