| portrait dramas |
| play battling |
| besotted |
| interiors / exteriors |
| nursing |
| pregnancy |
| container homes |
| abandoned banquets |
| wallpaper |
| plein-air |
| ribbons |
| My voice as a mother is expressed in tableau paintings. I am fascinated to record the most important people of my life as they engage in play battles. |
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Airlows Tornado Attack |
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Bubble Shield Green Goo |
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Battling lighting attack |
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Watergun |
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Crack it open |
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Support Structure |
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Making home |
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Saving the moon |
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The Divide |
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Light in Darkness |
| In the summer of 2009 my three young children made up new dramatic plays daily. I helped them make comic books of their adventures. I took photos of them acting out their scenarios, then in Photoshop added the imaginary items each child requested, such as green goo strands and bubble shields. We added bubbles of text in the Comic Life program. What initially intrigued me about this project was the playful enacting of real drama. It is a mode of expression that is playful and light and yet holds significance for a much more dire communications. Anger, rage, injury, suffering, fragility, isolation, love, caring- interacting figure express these. But why at a certain time when I photograph their play are they revealing one communication and why do I choose to paint that pose instead of the fifty others? I think it is the immediate needs and current history of what is happening in our family. The photographs I choose to paint reveal what they need to enact but also what I as the viewer and participant as Mother need to express. As this series progressed I reduced the colour pallet to the primary colours. I chose a colour for each of my children. As an artist mother my three children completed my world, just as the primary colours are all that one needs to record everything. The blackness in the background became the threatening elements of the world that I cannot keep my children completely safe from. The white became the canvas - the framework of art. I received a Winnipeg Arts Council Grant to help me finance this series. May 2011 Brenna George |
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