"MY FATHER USED TO ALWAYS SAY..." Top left, "He never said anything. He was absentee." Top right, "Dear old Dad, the executioner. You know the Dad I'm talking about -- wait 'til your father gets home? The poor man couldn't even get in the door before we were already in tears." Lower left, "Just remember... you can't change the way people are, only the way you react to them. You will be a lot happier if you learn how to do the latter." Lower right, "You are just like your mother."
Ceramic artworks describe 'what my father used to always say'
(July 18, 2002)--Through the art exhibit, "Pressed and Confined," currently at the UTSA Downtown Campus Durango Building Gallery, curator and adjunct faculty member Jayne Lawrence offers a forum through which individuals express recollections of their relationships with their fathers.
Lawrence originally created 100 identical slip-cast ceramic men's shirts with sleeves folded under and covered in hand-made paper on which each participant could write a response to complete the thought, "My father used to always say..."
Many of the individuals added photos, small personal items or other memorabilia with their written message. Lawrence now plans to publish a book, "Fathers," containing images of all the works.
"Pressed and Confined" presents 16 of the ceramic works, three reverse negative photographs of shirts and a life-size, three-dimensional wire-mesh men's suit suspended from the ceiling and free-moving.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday-Friday, or contact the Office of Student Activities adjacent to the gallery in the Durango Building.
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Ceramic artworks describe 'what my father used to always say'
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