James Cook Art and Photography

This image evokes memories of something I might have seen in Dr. Strange comic books from the seventies – a sort of post-industrial altar bathed in a supernatural light where elements of  of technology and mysticism struggle to coexist.

This piece is based upon a photograph of a wall hanging my mother-in-law made for me. The design is a traditional block pattern that was also used on a quilt my grandmother  made that was a favorite of mine as a child. As such the image has multiple layers of meaning for me representing my memories of the people who made them and also of my childhood.

The “destroyed” parts of the image represent loss:

• loss of childhood
• loss of individuals close to me
• And the loss of memory experience by the elderly who the quilt also symbolizes for me.