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Monday, March 24, 2014
In the multi dimensional
installation “Silent Faces/Angkor,” Mary Heebner knits together imagery and
writing to create an elemental, spiritual, and involving interpretation of the
myths of the ancient Angkor temple complex that plays on the links she has
found between human and geographic forms. Ms. Heebner often turns to myth to
broaden her understanding of the bonds between humans and the earth. When she
went to Cambodia's Angkor temple complex in 2000 and 2001, she began a series
she called “geography of a face” to further her exploration of the connection
between human and geographic form. Through both drawing and photography she
engaged Angkor Wat's 12th-century frieze, the “Churning of the Sea of Milk,”
and the other sculptural works there. While humans have always carved
likenesses in stone, those figures just as surely erode and return to the
earth. The ancient myth she studied and the eroded faces she read as maps
shaped her path to creation of the books, scroll paintings, drawings and texts
that make up this striking and profound installation. Ms. Heebner is an
internationally known painter, book artist, writer, publisher, and installation
artist with works in public and private institutions including the Library of
Congress, the National Gallery of Art, The British Library, the New York Public
Library, The J. P. Getty Research Library, Dartmouth College, the University of
California, and Stanford University.
