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HAT LADIES . . . A SERIES, 2024

Rediscovering a displaced culture’s history; how to effectively retell the story from my personal viewpoint with as much passion and truth that I can gather through my family’s geographical locations throughout our timeline. And for most of the dialogue and image making I will have to rely on my own and others’ memories.

Hat Ladies: A Message from Jean, 2024

Hat Ladies: Glossolalia 2024

Hat Ladies: Glossolalia Epilogue, 2024

Hat Ladies: Glossolalia 2nd Edition, 2024

SOMETHING FROM NOTHING

 

Rediscovering a displaced culture’s history; how to effectively retell the story from my personal viewpoint with as much passion and truth that I can gather through my family’s geographical locations throughout our timeline. And for most of the dialogue and image making I will have to rely on my own and others’ memories.

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Glossolalia

The images come to me as I am awakening. Mostly as non-intelligible nonsense, written on sheets of paper hung haphazardly on the walls surrounding my sleeping self. They are not middle-age floaters, but very visible and authentic. Sometimes they come with an indescribable sound. Sometimes I understand the sounds completely, at other times I do not. At times the wall is filled with the images of these words or visions or interpretations of dreams. At times they appear as singular detached graffiti that move and dance about, following my line of sight as I move my head and adjust my eyes to the dawn light that is entering through my bedroom window. What are these? Blessings or curses? They look like cut up strands of DNA sequences, or better yet movie film edits that end up being discarded after being rejected from lengthier completed stories. That would explain a lot. The noises and the movement, the symbolism found throughout the unfinished phrases. Sinister are the ones that I remember, nightmarish and fear inducing. Like those “no way out” Stephen King novels that I hate. Back masked discarded film edits.

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Vicki Salise Hayes

Black Salt 1 and 2

Ink and acrylic on photo paper attached to cotton cloth

...and the words used to describe this process of growth, "a covering" is suspect as well and lends itself to subversive thought. A cover up--and is nature itself in compliance with the deeds done here or is nature ashamed of what has occured here and seeks to hide it?

Dedicated to W. Ruth Hayes

IN THE PIRATE GRAMCRACKER STUDIO

this is not coincidental . . .

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