Medical Forms 2007

There are prints and collages here. The collages are actually in an existing book about trees that was part of Dave's parents' collection at the Cabin. It was one of those coffee table books that didn't really have a good reason to exist after it got a little old, so I decided to give it a new life by using it to collage into with other images from old medical school books that had also lost their reason for existing. The birds were from a miniature book of Audubon illustrations.

It was fun making new images from these old books and letting my mind do something with them other than study them. The prints were done last summer at the Women's Studio Workshop. I made a lot of stencils from the bones and vessels in the old medical texts. The shapes reminded me of branching patterns from trees and streams. I don't intend for them to mean anything in particular. I simply responded to the strange juxtapositions they made. I like tilting into this visual world and exploring this non-linear, irrational way of thinking and feeling.