This began as the “Deconstructing Lilli” period, although this work was later renamed “Collateral Damage.” It was a study of closely examining and dissecting body parts and reassembling them in various irregular configurations as an experimental search for my own new-found order of importance and meaning, inside and out. As time passed, my community changed, and my vision and perspectives continued to evolve. I found myself adjusting, dissecting, analyzing, taking inventory, and reassembling not only body parts, but the fundamental components of a new level of existence.
The stark white bodies and parts were contorted, boxed in, contained, as if they are hiding or protecting themselves from what was to come, presented on the floor, walls and ceiling, mirroring our ongoing situation as disassembled, broken, confined, and disconnected beings. Some are presented as oversized skewers stacked with body parts - men, women and children posing the question of our own physical ailments and damage - or - is it a raw body count serving as a memorial of those left behind or discarded?
