Chronicle of Loss

Project Statement:  Chronicle Of Loss

The Chronicle Of Loss is a diary of a year. Each 3”x 3” square represents a day.  These squares were pre-cut from remnants left-over from decades of art-making,  home-making and child-rearing.  Saturated with material evidence of time, memories, and states of mind,  this is a visceral diary of days that have been lost.

The marks made on each square represent my daily life, inner and outer. Each day I would try to embellish a square. The squares were like mini sketch pads where visual and material issues were worked out, and where the events and feelings of the day were reflected.  The day I was married, the day of my eldest daughter’s surgery, something my younger daughter said, a visit from my mother, the first time I saw the Palouse, are all recorded here.  Each of these squares is a relic of what has passed: of what was lost.  However, much is not recorded here. There were many days when I failed to work on a square. These days are lacking: their square left blank. They are an “absence made present.”  The squares left blank bear a double loss:  the day represented has passed in time and possibly passed from memory, and yet their passing is commemorated.