Making
the collages for Ecotone began as active procrastination last February.
A thesis paper loomed and in between finishing the paintings and
writing the paper I compulsively cut and glued. There was a freedom in
this side trip that benefited from intense painting the months before.
I was engaged in a seamless marriage of work and play, my fragmented
existence perfectly accommodated.
The collage-making
allowed a movement between worlds and an exploration of the murky
places in between. Materials and images were literally and figuratively
layered, conjuring parallel and intersecting existences: the conscious
and unconscious, surface and depth, reality and the subterranean of
dreams and memory, reality and the imagined, the spoken and the unsaid,
myth and history, narrative and the still moment. Yearning directed
movement that was ironically a leave-
taking and a movement home.
-Pamela Wallace Toll
Fragile
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Gypsy
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Visible Schemata
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Longing
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Prayer
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Dual Existence
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Passage Rite
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Passage Rite
Pamela Wallace Toll
