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"EMERGENCY OF BEAUTY - the work shown here was initiated in the 1980's and constitutes but a small part of the overall project.  When exhibited the work  takes the form of an installation, usually comprising of between twenty and twenty-seven images.  The images have a passé partout in sand glass and toulipè wood frames; the size of each framed piece is 30x30cm in total.

The series assembles and compares details of body parts: mouths, eyes, hands, which isolated and observed in their particulars, recall allusion connected with a hard pornographic iconography.  Recently the work has sought to incorporate situations of subtle violence demonstrated by a minute and analytic corporal description."