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2005-2006
'Dick and Jane' -America, A Story Book Treasury
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Some of the first English words to be read by young Americans in the 1950’s and 60’s were the Read with Dick and Jane collection. This American 'hallmark' series was first written as a post WWI collection that influenced my generation’s stereotypical family roles, gender classification, racial bias, all affected future moral and psychological thinking.
I have returned to pre-literate markings by removing the textual message and reverting back to a universal language of line and color. The 'chariots' in these paintings are abstracted symbolic vehicles of self that emote action and reaction towards the viewer. The chariots carry an inner baggage that is the accumulation of a literate culture dating from the Greeks, present day, striving to answer the age old questions, "Who are we...Where are we going...Where have we been?"