7. impact — topology of violence

Topology of Violence

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T&F: Are you looking for dialogue, and if so, how do you stimulate and incorporate it into your work?

D: I seek to stimulate a dialogue with audiences that in the first instance acknowledges the legacy of American violence not as a linear history, but as a cyclical condition of greed fueled by moral disengagement and the lack of personal and political introspection and secondly, the potential for its transcendence.

Circles are the dominating shape for most of the collages and serve as the primary philosophical vessel: a form that contains the evidence of rupture. Homicide and nuclear weapons complex imagery are printed upon fragile mulberry paper cut-outs - a natural soft, durable bark paper that beautifully absorbs inks and incense burning. The circles are at once an imprint of the wound and the conceptual space for its contemplation, a hermetic vessel where violence is not merely displayed, but potentially reconciled.

As the artist, the ritual of burning the edges with incense formalizes this transformation, proposing that within the very acknowledgment of fragility lies the principle of endurance, and that healing is a deliberate, meditative act held within the arc of the whole.