Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. It can also mean the basic, underlying framework or features of a system. A weak or broken infrastructure, in any context, can cause dysfunction, chaos, safety issues and disharmony.

The CRACK IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE prints have their origin from an unfortunate, lived experience. A fall resulted in a fracture of the artist’s. wrist. The artist was given an image of her x-ray at which time she began to think of her own infrastructure…the skeletal system being the essential framework or armature of the body.

Halftones of the x-ray image and a photo of a cross section of a supporting wall at KSU’s Center for Visual Arts were created, both images being examples of compromised infrastructures. Also referenced conceptually is the broken condition of society’s infrastructure.

ARMATURE

The body of work entitled ARMATURE is an early exploration into the concept and materiality of containment. The idea of containment relates to observations made within a cultural, societal, anthropological, psychological and historical context. Containers are also readily perceived in nature and are metaphors for the concept of containment. For containment to exist in any form, there must be a system of support. Through photographic imagery, print media and lived experiences, containment is investigated within the realm of art making.