visit the artist's web site: http://www.maddybragar.com
This work is inspired by working in the desert of Southern California called Anza Borrego. I travel to this remote land of sand and canyons in January with a group of friends who are artists. We tend to feel the same way: we are one with nature and with ourselves. The possibility of life amidst all the centuries of destruction, the layers of history, the sheer survival of humanity inspire me profoundly.
The desert is the perfect metaphor for my work: void and presence, complexity and elegance, pattern and random sequence. I find the extremes in temperature, the simultaneous aspects of death and regeneration, the isolation and soulful connection between all that has come before and all that is about to happen - forces that resonate in my pieces.
This work is explained as process work: a post modern approach to having the materials, environment and way of working combine to produce a statement that verifies or questions a moment in space. I use line and grid and the void of space consciously. Some pieces are found objects that have been transformed. Others are collaged mixed media. My hope is each piece asks from the viewer as many questions as it answers.
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