SHE: Space Poem to the Moon Goddess. This project is an homage to the feminine principle of transformation and renewal, which for millennia was held sacred in the form of the full moon and its recurring monthly cycle. The word SHE will be projected onto the surface of the moon for 29.5 day lunation periods, during which time the movements of moon,sun, and earth will change the meaning of the word. Every new moon the word will change as if a poem encircled the circumference of the moon. I am working on this with John Brown, Astronomer Royal at University of Glasgow. The word SHE is particularly interesting because not only because it refers to the feminine aspect of life generally and because its sound reminds one of the sound of water or wind or even the early hushing sound of mother towards child, but also because with planetary motions, the word transforms into its opposite HE. I am particularly interested in the reconciliation of opposites and what I believe is the natural interchangeability or flow from one polarity to another.


A recent statement which I made on my body of recent work:


I am particularly interested in the different ways time embeds itself in our bodies and in the earth. By time I mean changes. I have in the past worked with time in geometrical, formal and kinetic works. In the 1990's I explored Time through the medium of Memory. I asked myself if memories could be stored in the body and if so what would they tell and how would that appear. I wanted to make the unconscious visible, to see its eerie light. I began with cast bronze fragments taken off my body, which I later assembled contrasting the figurative bronze body casts with stacked mica and argon or neon. The mica symbolised the earth for me, the 'gleb' we all emerge from and to which we will eventually return. The argon or neon which runs like a river of light through the centre of the body to the head refers both to the unconscious and to kundalini or chi energy.
I wanted to look at my self from as many points of view as possible. I knew little about my family history and I thought of writing an auto-biography. ( autobiography = life/ time ) I interviewed my mother beginning with her memories of her grandparents and her parents, then her childhood during the turbulent period of the Russian Revolution and her experience of Nazi Germany where she had lived before immigrating to the United States. From these interviews I created an artist's book, Her Mother's Voice in which I looked for myself through her. I found the material I had collected in the form of sound tapes, video and hundreds of archival photographs so interesting and rich that I decided to look at the same subject through the medium of video. From that came a film and five narrative sculptures. In the latter I use small fragments of my body such as an elbow or a shoulder and with them create landscapes through which memory speaks in the form of very brief and miniature video images. I am fascinated by the connections between on the one hand memory and dreams, and on the other the body and the earth. I am interested in change and the way we perceive it framed in one dimensional unidirectional time. Could there be a different way of perceiving change, another kind of time ?