The works featured in Cathedral draw upon these notions of our relationship to religion, through the lens of psychology. With each type- written strip of text that is layered in a shingle-like pattern, Hitchcock is slowly stripping away its meaning to expose the raw materials of ink and paper. Once the meaning is dissolved, the words become an essence, before transcending into a signifier of its former content.
When I was a little girl, I read Nancy Drew mysteries over and over. I might do something with them. MH: I miss painting — I am a painter. KT: When you moved to New York, did this mark a departure for you from painting; was it the pace of life and the environment that influenced the shift in your practice?
What I was feeling and what was coming through on the canvas was a total disconnect and that really bothered me. I think I would consider not doing that. I am going to be showing my work at a fair in Houston. MH: He was an idiot: it was so ridiculous that he did that.
KT: How do you respond to reactions of horror that you are cutting up and re-authoring the word of God? KT: The curving text demands that the audience would have to look in a very different way if they were to try to read it, and obviously the extraction of punctuation and grammar also makes it difficult to follow.
MH: They are not meant to be read. I think the idea of a sacred text extends beyond what we think of. Taking it to an extreme, everything is sacred. So by weaving in some erotica, it points beyond just the obvious sacred text. MH: I did do a passage from that.
It was a pretty erotic passage or could be construed that way. I think I cut the letters from a book by Jung called Mysterium Coniunctionis. KT: When people see your work, what sort of encounter do you want them to have or take from it? MH: I really like them to be touched by it, to linger a little while.
If my work can contribute to that letting go process, then I would be really happy about that. MH: The word of God is relevant insofar as it offers hope to those who have none. One way or another, people need to connect with spirit. My work is in both galleries, so I was able to show a large body of work. It was interesting for me to see the continuity between the different series, which I began in I can see the continuous thread that weaves through my work—namely, my desire to express the experience of spiritual connection.
MH: Yes, in the sense that there are fewer distractions, which translates into more time in the studio. This has added a rich layer to my work—maybe not visible, but felt. Email address:. Home Exhibitions Artists About Contact. Meg Hitchcock: Illuminate , Installation view.
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