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Janice Lowry

[[strikethrough]] JOURNAL CONTSRUCTIONS
by JANICE LOWRY [[/strikethrough]]

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

[[strikethrough]] When deciding upon a title for this exhibit, there were several choices that occured to me. (But as I thought about the source of all) [my work, I realized that the first notations originate in my journal.] [[/strikethrough]]  the source of my work began with notations in my journal.  The journal is a place for all kinds of seemingly meaningless events, thoughts and feelings to be recorded. The inspiration for my work comes out of daily experiences and many times it may be as long as a year before the work is realized or made. But it is through this process of journal writing that the content of what I want to say is developed.

The constructions first started when I had been painting and the paintings developed the need to resolve how they were to be framed. It seemed odd to put them in conventional frames; they needed their own environment. The paintings were made with the new frame built directly around them. Eventually, both frame and painting were considered from the beginning and the work become three-dimensional constructions. The materials are part of the residue of our society that is not usually considered art materials, but which is changed by being placed into an art context. Many of the symbols are private--fish imagery, triangles, houses--but viewed as a whole, they can communicate the content of the work.

--Janice Lowry