CR RESETARITS

DREAMING OF MONA LISA

(paper, pencil, and digitalization. 2020. 10 inches X 8.5 )

Materials and Methods
I found this head in an encyclopedia from the 1880s. It was part of an article on the nervous system. It was small. 1.5 inches x 2. I cut out the parts I wanted and hand colored. Scanned and superimposed on an old reproduction of the likely background for "The Mona Lisa."
There was something about that head -- the eyes, mouth, nose, angle -- that made me think he and she might have understood each other.

Artist Statement
I like the edges of things, real and unreal. Edges as in poignant and slightly threatening and edges as in interconnection -- patch dynamics in collage art. I like making things that already exist exist differently. Ecology with more possibilities. It's not just about my ecological stance and the future but about mystery and the past. I like making the personal and private appear otherly and known, like a visual objective correlative. I like to take lost iconographic and rare images and help them breathe again.