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Consisting
of drawings, installation and a database-driven participative project, this
body of work tackles serious issues concerning love, loss, regret, unanswerable
questions and mortality. The artist asks, “What traces and evidence do
we leave behind? What residue clings to the remnants of a life lived? What stories
and emotions attach themselves to the most mundane of possessions – scarves,
mugs, toothbrushes, spools of thread, stacks of books, drawers full of greeting
cards received? For those of us left behind, how do we face those remnants?
What do we do with the unfinished business? What about all those questions we
meant to ask? Or the questions we never even realized we had? Those questions
whose answers are forever lost to us?” Of particular interest to the artist
is humankind’s ability to persevere in the face of tragedy, be it privately
or publicly, interpersonally or globally. There is hope to be found, in spite
of relentless challenges. This is the catalyst for D. Jean Hester’s artistic
practice and a point of departure into a multi-media investigation.
Visit Hester's
project website to participate in her online project:
http://www.powderroomprojects.com/questions
