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ARTEFACTO is a large scale installation in two galleries exhibited at the Phillip Feldamn Gallery on the campus of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR in fall 2006. The piece is the latest in a series of work examining the relationship between memory, artifact and identity. In the main space, the room is concieved of as a large compass, each cardinal direction is marked by a wall mounted vitrine. Each vitrine contains color associated with that direction. The large chendelier-like sculpture is the center with over 400 hand cast objects referenceing the meso-american glyph for speech. Each is filled with one of the following: ashes of Spanish/English dictionaries, verses cut from the Bible, and the petals of the Marigold (cempazuchitl).
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