Diasporic Travel Kit

by Holly Streekstra

18in.x12in.12in • Assemblage $NFS

Most of my art work utilizes humor and entertainment in order to capture the interest of the viewer. I often create assemblage with upholstered textiles on the outer form and an intimate inner-space within. Sometimes sound and video are embedded within these forms or video is projected onto an object. All of my work is, in some way, infected with my love of theater and employment in theatrical spaces. Works therefore become a proscenium; intimate spaces are a stage featuring a play of objects, audio collage, video screens. It is my intention that through a stimuli of words, images and sounds, metaphors and associations all plucked (cut, pasted, edited) from the stuff of our collective cultural memory, prominent cultural archetypes exist, no longer as received ideas, but as a bold entertainments.