Line Art Project With
Tamara Bond
Tamara graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design with a degree in Visual Arts in 2001. Her drawings and books have been shown in BC, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. Her series of drawings The Love Project was made into a chapter book through Jack Pine Press in Saskatoon, of which she is a collective member.
She is interested in creating a place in my drawings where reality and imagination merge. Imagination has been defined as “the ability to confront and deal with reality by using the creative power of the mind”. Drawing upon memory, family history, stories, and dreams, to create a new narrative enables her to re-enact events, and to understand and process life. In the drawings personal issues are addressed by attaching physical and visual metaphors to them. Re-occurring elements such as water, animals, food and the forest are all introduced as symbols into the narrative in an effort to re-tell or elaborate on my past. The main character, a self-portrait of sorts, is a rather expressionless girl, decorated and clothed in transparent dresses. Her body changes shape to negotiate the situations she has been drawn her into. Her companions are a collection of actual ceramic and plastic figurines in my studio- rabbits, birds, a chipmunk, a dog with its decapitated head, a pair of lovebirds, and a horse with a missing leg. Unlike the girl, each character is very expressive in it’s own way and is chosen to reflect a certain mood or tell part of the story.
Links:
Vancouver Art Exhibit
Mendel Art Exhibit
Last Updated May 2, 2005
