Constellations

takes the form of small painted pieces of paper pinned to the wall. The pins, without which the image collapses, are important because they represent not only the ephemeral nature of what is there but also the feeling that this is not the only possible solution and so the solution is also a question. The question is one of the possibility of coherence as well as what has been left out. The search travels  through tiny fragments of both Egyptian and Greek mythology as well as other sources. The underlying metaphor is based on the Greek myth of Ariadne and Theseus, The structure or plan within which the fragments sit is mapped out with black thread. In the black and white piece the thread is removed after the fragments are in place. The structure, which resembles a simple cross section of a house, is then implied. The shapes for these plans are derived from the Egyptian symbols which name the twenty one regions through which the Egyptian boat of the dead has to pass on its way to “heaven’. * The words ‘where is my house’ and ‘ tell me where’ (used a parallel work called The Garden) come from a Sumerian poem 5,000 B.C. dealing with exile and belonging.