Senga
**Please note that the art sections are still under construction.
I live in the fourth dimension when I create landscapes. These
landscapes are made out of materials that are discards and
commonplace. I like to dance with the spaces I occupy, creating
a triad. Partnering, we show what each other have to offer.
Selection of a site and materials is critical to my creative
process. They are my way into a concept that seems to usher forth
(take form) from my manipulation of them. My selection of materials
also addresses/reflects who I am and my status in society: .
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Artist/Woman/Black/Of
a Certain Age/with Adult Children and Aging Parents/United States
of America Citizen. The order may change in importance on any
given day.
Often today’s installations are expensive,
technologically driven major productions. I prevail with ‘what
is at hand’. My installations are subtle and intimate,
involving issues of time and personal change. They are durable
like a bird’s nest with viewers feeling welcome enough
to shift from observers to participants. Utilizing masking
tape, gravel, dirt, newspapers, powdered tempera, seedpods,
stripped pantyhose, photos and found stuff is a statement in
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To shape shift paradigms I find different ways to use materials
others consider useless or insignificant providing proof that
the disregarded and disenfranchised may also have the resilience
and reformative ability to find their poetic selves.
In many ways my installations are informed by
my performances. An ongoing performance that I began about
three years ago is my “What’s in a name” personas.
What is in a name? I propose plenty. That is why I have a different
name for each medium I use.
Propecia Leigh - Photographer
Harriet Chin - Painter
Lily Bea Moor –Writer
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