Shards of Memory
34"H x 36"W x 4"D, 2004. Collage, index card drawings, florescent Plexiglas, and acrylic on canvas
David Feinberg, with drawing and painting contributions from Gina Kugler, survivor, Lucy Smith, survivor, and Sabina Zimering,MD, survivor, and the following artists: Laura Krueger, Katie Novak, and Diane Grace Goodman.
Shards of Memory is a triptych that combines two different exercises to elicit memory. In the first exercise, survivors Gina Kugler, Lucy Smith, and Sabina Zimering, MD, told stories in response to cut-out visual fragments of well-known paintings. Three enlarged black and white reproductions of the selected fragments, one from each survivor, was pasted to each section as a starting point.
In the second exercise, in response to songs sung live by Krista Palmquist, the participants drew images of their evoked experiences on index cards. The art team selected three index card drawings, one from each participant, to be pasted in relationship with the fragments from the first exercise.
In each of the three sections, a piece of colored Plexiglas was selected as the concluding visual move. Size, color, and placement of the Plexiglas was considered for visual strength and emotional presence. The art teams challenge was to allow the viewer to respond to the atmosphere created by visual forms abstracted from real events.