Renee Zettle-Sterling
Coopersville, Michigan
The Purposeful Artifact #2
photographic collaboration with Wendy Deschene, Alburn,
Alabama, 2007
Every artist's studio is packed with stuff that inspires him or her. Whether it is packed with white clean space, dollar store kitsch or artifact of life, these elements create the comfort of insistence, which the art grows from. Often these elements infusing creative spaces do not make it in to the final work. However a fascinating phenomenon is that these things, as open to being there as the artist is to have them, are essential to the published work. What happens to the objects that inspire this process but are then left to the window ledge or under the workbench? Is their power leached, or a continual subliminal force? In fact do they now have an even greater purpose and aura that changes with the newest body of work? It is the question that insists they still have reason. This series captures that question through a photographic collaboration between two complementary creative explorations.
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