Keri Marion
Drawing Four (detail).
11x17, pencil on paper.
November 2009
Keri Marion
Drawing Four.
11x17, pencil on paper.
November 2009
Keri Marion
Drawing Four (detail).
11x17, pencil on paper.
November 2009
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by answers.” – James Baldwin
My current body of work consists primarily of drawings, objects and documentation of process. Physically, my work discusses barriers and distance; intimately, my work is concerned with identity and accumulation. I use these philosophies as metaphor to describe relationships within the social sphere.
Within our technology-based social structure, we are creating and buying into ideas that supposedly create a simpler living environment, when in fact, the truth is exactly the opposite: things are rarely what they seem to be. My work follows this example in that it has a face-value of complexity, but once the viewer examines it, its true nature is extremely simple.
My work is rooted in feminist philosophy, deconstruction, Buddhism, barrier, ritual and accumulation. Though I may not explore every one of these ideas in each piece, each idea arrives in configurations throughout the whole.
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