Between Cedar and Vine

Between Cedar & Vine is an auto-topography, which grew out of the artist’s morning walk to get a cup of coffee. A collage of text and images collected over twenty-years, her daily “stroll” became an unconscious game of play and chance, which then, in turn, illuminated half-remembered images and familiar, but unnoticed tangible patterns—an entirely new way of seeing.

1985 was the unrealized starting point, when she moved to Spruce Street, between Cedar and Vine, in Berkeley, California. Walking to and from a nearby café, sometimes going the long way round and sometimes going the short way, found fragments of unknown origins elicited multiple meanings, play of memory and chance synchronicities.

In 1991, still trying to make sense of the larger world and her place in it, she departed from the habitual walk, for a six-week journey along the Nile River. From the forest of trees in Berkeley to the columns of Karnak, she searched the underground passages of Egypt’s ancient civilization. The questions of man through the ages were still there, among the ruins, to be seen in relation to the discontinuous postmodern world.

In 1998, the collection of documents suddenly crystallized from their random idiosyncratic disorder to a coherent narration of the artist’s search for true beginnings. The gift of living between Cedar & Vine became clear: Cedar Street represented the strict linearity of Western thought, while Vine Street allowed the non-linear search of Eastern thought. Living between these two, a feeling for the undivided harmony of the cosmos evolved.

Between Cedar & Vine  
Venus Pencils
Berkeley, California, 2008

Description:    Accordion, Epson printed front and back on Moab Entrada Natural with Epson K3 inks. $2500