This was an important solo exhibition for me – a time and place where I was given great latitude by the gallery director, Sherri Staltari, to bring together many threads of my practice and life. A range of abstract paintings were accompanied by object works.  I also incorporated many materials, actual and symbolic, from my childhood on a farm.  These were arrayed like a personal compass where things unexpectedly pointed to significant moments, speaking to the unwritten corporeal ‘story’.

Constellations are patterns of stars that have been officially recognized and classified as fixed, but there are smaller patterns within constellations called asterisms that are sub-patterns, since they have part of themselves in one constellation and part in another.  In this exhibition my groupings called asterisms were a metaphor for narratives of the body and its experiential story.  Materials don’t speak the language of the conscious brain, but they signal to the subconscious, via the poetic language of memory, of things of significance yet displaced from the official narrative of self.