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TEN DEGREES OF WRONG

2008 - 2010
 DIVERSE WORKS, HOUSTON, TX
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My mother and I made boxes (we called them peep shows) when I was a little girl.  Using a shoe box, colored cellophane, newspaper and magazine cutouts, we created fairy tales and monster tales, hung a light over the box and peeped through a hole in the side.  They seemed magical but threatening to me. 
     
My mom quoted Clifford Odets to me, "We are living in a time when new art should shoot bullets".  I never forgot.

These boxes, 10 Degrees of Wrong, are of such a time.  Our time.  They are what I read, see and hear -- child labor, torture, tyranny, oppression and more of course.  Instead of 10 they could be 100, 1000 or a million.  Every artist has something stuck in her craw.  She coughs and coughs and sometimes it comes out.
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