Terri began duration performance art centering on the body in the mid 1980s in San Francisco. While she continues to develop performance pieces , her repertoire has expanded. Themes of duration in current 2-d graphic work are still very much alive, yet mostly invisible to the viewer. The duration has gone from being the piece to creating the piece.
The current body of work records impressions of wave patterns that morph into micro-cosmic-organisms, while documenting communication within a silent cartography of the body and the language of a cellular romance. A colorful palette memorializes visually conceptualized movements while exploring chronic pain management techniques. Individual tiles record steps not taken, the physical body un-moved. Is a mark enough to memorialize ones’ own existence when mark-making may be the only gesture capable of being made?
The work references the world of biology, microorganisms, and cellular automata – as cells have the ability to multiply in abundance, divide and merge at different paces. Pieces come together, fall apart and transform in shape as they reveal themselves onto the paper.
The current body of work records impressions of wave patterns that morph into micro-cosmic-organisms, while documenting communication within a silent cartography of the body and the language of a cellular romance. A colorful palette memorializes visually conceptualized movements while exploring chronic pain management techniques. Individual tiles record steps not taken, the physical body un-moved. Is a mark enough to memorialize ones’ own existence when mark-making may be the only gesture capable of being made?
The work references the world of biology, microorganisms, and cellular automata – as cells have the ability to multiply in abundance, divide and merge at different paces. Pieces come together, fall apart and transform in shape as they reveal themselves onto the paper.