University Mary Ann Papanek-Miller Jewelery and Mixed Media Resume New works continue to be physically intimate in their execution, providing the viewer with a bombardment of information through the use of many different professionally specific drawing styles, ie the mechanical blue print, the use of architectural templates, maps and the diagram as a drawing made for a specific purpose often conceptually for the user to perform a specific act. My gathering of this information combines and directly parallels with the physical aspects of the switching of channels on the television, the flipping of pages in print or the moving through space in a vehicle. These visual and auditory experiences generate sounds and images for me which often remain as an after image or residue, layering one experience over the next and the next and the next, which cumulate to form my current visual vocabulary. Often my work is about sound which is applied through visual depth and levels of focus as contemporary music to be read.
Surfaces continue to be active, and full utilizing a mixed media commitment to art making.
Titles continue to be an important passage into my thoughts as an element of my attraction to layering, which continues to dominate my work as transparent windows through my thoughts in hopes of engaging the viewer in a dialogue. My three-dimensional forms respond directly to my two dimensional works as layered works in mixed metals and gems, mechanical and organic, found and constructed inviting the viewer or wearer to physically participate in rite, ritual or adornment of passage.