Corpo
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Artist’s Statement 12/05
Corpo
In this body of work I address the environmental and social devastation of global corporate domination. These drawings reference maps, schemata and structural representations of companies and their practices. Building on my previous botanical painting, the images draw on biomorphic forms – vacillating between the real and the surreal. Data and information are simultaneously presented as text and as deliriously schematized images imbued with collage elements that contain informational fragments. The format and the hand-written texts have an irreverent allusion to school Bristol board projects but the mutant images and incendiary information are meant to disturb and challenge the viewer.
This body of work contains five series of drawings. One trio of drawings addresses the impact of biotechnological giant, Monsanto, as well as environmentalists’ efforts to combat the spread of genetically modified plants. A second quartet explores the world of transgenics as practiced by Nexia, a biotech firm that has created ‘biosteel’ a trade-marked and patented product that derives recombinant spider silk from goats’ milk. The third series, another set of four drawings, considers the urban sprawl in the Greater Toronto Area and its impact on the remaining undeveloped forest and ravine preserves while examining the links between developers and municipal officials. A fourth duet addresses the polarity of incremental concentration of wealth and worsening poverty in the world. The fifth series, a trio of drawings, looks at the proliferation of military spending. In 2007 I completed the sixth series, three drawings on Ontario aggregate extraction.