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HoboEye Art:
Patricia Buckley, Livingston, Montana
Patricia Buckley received her MFA in 1999 from Columbia College Chicago in Interdisciplinary Art with a focus on installation and the book arts. While at Columbia she received The Aiko Fellowship, The Albert P. Weisman Award, The Union League Civic and Art Foundation Award, and was an Artemesia mentorship program recipient. Her work has been featured in the Chicago Sun –Times and critically reviewed by the Chicago Reader. In her current work she engages with the narrative in both two-dimensional mixed medium and the artist book form. She has just completed a limited edition artist book “crime scene”.
Buckley says her current art-making practice is intuitive in nature and begins in a variety of ways. She make photos and incorporate these into her drawn and painted collages, which often evolves into a narrative. She also writes texts that enhance or provide another layer of meaning.
The small size of the work is an invitation to the viewer to participate in an intimate interaction. The work is a representation of perceived emotional history--a study of interior dialogues within an imagined environment. It romances space, which gives the viewer a soft or quiet entrance into a haunted place. Haunted in the sense that the place exists with the energy of past human experience.
The images exhibited here are spreads taken from Buckley's recent book “crime scene”. Below is the complete text from the book:
Crime Scene
Body of message
She covers him in words
A parade of words
Marching bands
The weight of her voice
A rash of lead sinkers
A silvery pile on white hair
His still chest
Holds the breath
To keep her out
She talks too much
She is always talking
And words accumulate
Like kindling
A quick burn
Indistinguishable dialogue
Unkempt language
He remembers to breathe
And catches her breath
And carries her stories
He is a pilferer of sorts
Collecting bits of her monologues
For his safe-keeping
He eats her mouth
To shut her up
To have her sweet tongue too
She tells him everything
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