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Artist's Statement
Color comes from
light and feelings people live in the world of background of natural
and man-made colors. All surfaces of color are acts of building up
from the world with gestures, sound, and forms that enter into our
feelings and affect us, leaving a historical sediment that remains
with us.
Angkor Color Reliefs
are meant to be windows or openings in the wall which dissolve the
confines of the room and open the viewer to distant vistas of the
past of Khmer culture.
My Angkor Color
Reliefs are layered silk and Canvas which show the many facets of
the fabric of Cambodia, producing a sparkling surface of mixed
colors which echo and recall the heritage of Angkor. The act of
building the wall of a temple is a metaphor for the continuous
building of society The squares of my fabric repeat this process,
just as each individual square stands as a single frame within the
larger piece. My built color surface is thus based on the
foundations of color necessary for human life. Without color, people
"die"
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