Carole Kunstadt
West Hurley, New York
West Hurley, New York
Bio: Carole Kunstadt received a BFA from the Hartford Art School in Hartford CT and did postgraduate studies at the Akademie der Bildenen Künste, in Munich, Germany. Having recently relocated to Woodstock NY from New York City, Kunstadt is honored to be the recipient of the 2017 Kuniyoshi Fund Award.
STATEMENT
Sacred Poem CII, Sacred Poem LXX
The Sacred Poem series utilizes pages from Parish Psalmody, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, published in 1849. I manipulated and recombined pages of psalms, resulting in a presentation that evokes an ecumenical offering--poems of praise and gratitude. The aged pages suggest the temporal and the vulnerable. Gold leaf elevates and heightens the textural qualities. The interplay alludes to the enticing presentation of illuminated texts historically.
The alteration of the papers' linear, tactile, and facile nature emphasizes transformation, while the possibility of revelation is playfully realized.
PRESSING ON, No. 5, PRESSING ON, No. 55
PRESSING ON: Homage to Hannah More
In the Pressing On series I have cut, woven, scorched, and layered pages from a book by Hannah More.* Antique sad (solid) irons present the personal herstories--those laboring under the demands for pressed garments and linens, to suit class distinctions, societal expectations--the erstwhile servitude of those applying consistent heat and pressure.
*An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World: By One of the Laity, London, 1791. Published anonymously, this was one of the most widely read books of the day. Hannah More (1745-1833) was an abolitionist, social reformer, and writer. More's lifelong cause was galvanizing women to act not as domestic ornaments, but as thinking, engaged, and responsible beings. More helped give the abolition movement a public voice with her writings. She died in 1833, having lived long enough to see slavery abolished in the British Empire.
STATEMENT
Sacred Poem CII, Sacred Poem LXX
The Sacred Poem series utilizes pages from Parish Psalmody, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, published in 1849. I manipulated and recombined pages of psalms, resulting in a presentation that evokes an ecumenical offering--poems of praise and gratitude. The aged pages suggest the temporal and the vulnerable. Gold leaf elevates and heightens the textural qualities. The interplay alludes to the enticing presentation of illuminated texts historically.
The alteration of the papers' linear, tactile, and facile nature emphasizes transformation, while the possibility of revelation is playfully realized.
PRESSING ON, No. 5, PRESSING ON, No. 55
PRESSING ON: Homage to Hannah More
In the Pressing On series I have cut, woven, scorched, and layered pages from a book by Hannah More.* Antique sad (solid) irons present the personal herstories--those laboring under the demands for pressed garments and linens, to suit class distinctions, societal expectations--the erstwhile servitude of those applying consistent heat and pressure.
*An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World: By One of the Laity, London, 1791. Published anonymously, this was one of the most widely read books of the day. Hannah More (1745-1833) was an abolitionist, social reformer, and writer. More's lifelong cause was galvanizing women to act not as domestic ornaments, but as thinking, engaged, and responsible beings. More helped give the abolition movement a public voice with her writings. She died in 1833, having lived long enough to see slavery abolished in the British Empire.