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| by Christine Palamidessi |
Christine Palamidessi is an accomplished, multifaceted woman and a model for what can be true for women today. She is an author, journalist, professor, editor, and artist. You can see the depth of her expression on her website between novels set in Boston's North End, advocating for Italian American women, writing a memoir, and on and on it goes. My favorite Palamidessi contribution would be her sculptures which are dynamic, fleshy, and poetic. On display at North River Gallery until Sunday, October 21 are two of her 2 D pieces, one is a mixed media that comments on the relationship between mother and daughter, and the other is a print based on the hand written and painted diagramming she has created on the back of her Orpheus Simile sculpture.
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| by Christine Palamidessi |
Christine writes: "The Greek god Hermes guarded crossroads, communication, dreams and thieves; he knew better than anyone that narratives change as easily as direction. Words are slippery, tricksters carrying bags of memory, vocabulary and culture, and each letter is a tip of a long thread that collides with other threads in the collective unconscious. The questions about where we place ourselves in the creation of narrative inspires my art. I stand at the crossroad with Hermes and ask: where do words come from and take us to? How do we ride words to create narratives? When do we change horses and begin to use images in place of words? Watching a world that is culturally compressing, I see words react by expanding digitally into space at a rapid rate, making an airy soup of their ink. The intention of my art is to capture this transition: from words to image and from image to word. In the transformation, the body becomes the picture of the human soul and a container for the message."