Emily Ann Pothast: Artist's statement

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22. Jesus saw biography infants being suckled. He said to his disciples: "These little ones being artist's statement suckled are like those who enter the kingdom." They said to him: "Then will we enter the kingdom as little ones?" contact Jesus said to them: "Whenyou make the two into one, and when you make the inside like the Current work outside and the outside like the inside and the above like the below – that is, to make the male and the female into a single one, so that the exhibition record male will not be male and the female will not be female – and when you make eyes instead of an eye and a hand instead of a hand and a foot instead of a foot, an image instead of an image, works on the web then you will enter the links kingdom."^*

Artist's statement

My work is rooted in my interest in myth and ritual. With the current series of collage pieces, I am combining finely deconstructed text and pattern from both self-generated and found sources into mosaic-like metaphysical landscape fragments that reference sacred geometry, visionary and folk art, and medieval manuscript paintings. The process of breaking down and reassembling advertising ephemera—as well as one's own previous artistic efforts—mirrors the process of psychological death and rebirth that is characteristic of the world's great mystic traditions. This in turn mirrors the role of the decomposers in an ecosystem: digesting the bodies of the ancestors in order to fertilize the soil for new growth.

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