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Within my project, “Mapping and Remapping our sublime quotidian: The Gypsis’ Tent”, I intend to tackle the theme of consumption. I do believe that the reflexivity stops one from being fully present in both understanding and appreciation of his/her surroundings. I also believe that at the core of our reflexive system is a matrix of mapping and remapping. Thus, in this body of work, I will be particularly interested in analyzing the system of architectural connections between the physical elements and horror vaccui dominant aesthetic. I began referencing the outside world hodgepodge through informational overlapping, until the point of self-annihilation and self-denial of the rendered elements when they start to lose their hierarchy. By using different cultural iconography, and by imposing and superimposing recognizable with more abstracted similes, I attempt to create a matrix of polyphonic images in my work. In doing so, I am more interested in offering the viewer the basis for personal stories, rather than didactical answers.
Ema Harris-Sintamarian is a romenian artist that lives and works in san jose. she got a MFA in printimaking form the university of delaware and a second MFA in painting from san jose state, where she teaches now. she is represented by jack fisher gallery in sf.
