a m e rican artist
Hayley Haddad
Drawing and Mixed M edia
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Every place has a history, a
continuous lexicon of experiences
and occurrences archived in
the landscape. History is merely
representative of the past as it only
constitutes recorded instants in time.
In contrast, the past encompasses the
totality of life that goes by unnoticed.
Not all events of the past leave an
evidentiary trace, and just as some
locations evolve and transform as
time progresses, others erode and
fade, leaving only memories filtered
by a range of perspectives to
account for the array of life that
happened there. In my drawings, I am
exploring the concept of history as
a synthesis of the past and present,
in which multiple vantage points of
Reminiscence
numerous incidents are juxtaposed in
Drawing/Mixed Media, 16” x 20”
a single visual expanse.
The large-scale drawings depict
detailed environments overloaded with
imagery embedded in the landscape.
Multitudinous viewpoints are perceived
as the viewer excavates the layers
within the thematic montage of places,
architecture, events, and culture. The result
is a multifaceted ephemeral panorama that
meanders through space, time, and history.
The collages are comprised of a
combination of printed images and found
photographs seamlessly melded with pen, ink
wash, and transfer techniques. The images
are compulsively superimposed, rendering
dynamic scenes that traverse elements of
the past, present, and future.
ART
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WARF
Drawing/Mixed Media, 32” x 46”