ARTISTS
Janice Caswell

STATEMENT

My drawings and
installations represent
mental maps, an
investigation of the mind's
peculiar ways of
organizing memories. I
attempt to trace the edges
of recalled experience,
plotting the movement of
bodies and consciousness
through time and space.

This work arises
out of a desire to capture
experience, an impulse to
locate, arrange and secure
the past. I use a pared-
down, coded language
through which points,
lines and fields of color
define spaces and retell narratives, making memories concrete.

But memory is a flawed system. Gaps arise in the process of
recollecting and the mind is constantly reconfiguring and recreating
the past. My work embraces the mind's faulty processes. In drawing
my "maps," subjective decision making, human error and reevaluation
come into play. The result is a representation that is simultaneously
deliberate and vague.

In attempting to create a system for representing experience,
the pieces become dynamic records of memory itself in the act of
recreating what would otherwise be lost.

http://www.janicecaswell.com/
Accessed 9/29/09
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