Annie Kaye

Lives and works in New York State, USA

Artist statement

On Process: Whether working with imagery or language- my work is premised on a practice of appropriation. I call this practice collage. This book is a poem that is a collage. More and more- the text feels itself a sort of creature beyond my grasp. Is a property of other people. As if it had been written, by someone else. But, it is the same book. And from this kind of thought, has emerged a new conclusion- Which is that the book is alive and potent and fructifying. A collage- is an interpretation. It bursts from the breathing aperture. From end to keel- It bursts. With a full-bodied report. A collage is a true real entire interpretation and an interpretation that wants to create something new. Doing collage- means creating a new world- with elements of this existing world. Doing collage- is 'low' art- and it's easy. Everybody- is included in collage. Collage- possesses the power- to implicate. I wanted to put together what could not otherwise be put together- And I think that's often the aim of a collage. I wanted to break the scale. And I wanted to break the angles, in perspective. Because I want to express the world that I live in- Not-- the whole world-- as-- the entire world. But the whole world-- as the entire world- fragmented. One of my hopes for the work- is to demonstrate the fragility of the norms and conventions ruling our social order. And then- how easily they can give rise to something dark, and frightening. N.B.: I do not wish to conflate or compare my...

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