Michelle Forsyth

Trauma, 2002
Cotton thread on cotton, 4 x 5 inches.

Trauma Paintings, 2002-05

Using images of disaster and accident in this series of work, I worked to address the human costs involved in living within contemporary technological society. Based on a collection of images of trauma culled from television, newspapers, and the Internet that picture the aftermath of terrorist attacks, bombings, massacres and images of war, I used an elaborate and time consuming process in order to slow the images down. The grid bacame a nexus between the bitmapped images and the hand-crafted ones.

Flower, 2003
Cotton thread on cotton, 4 x 5 inches.

Mishap 1, 2002
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.

Yellow Accident, 2002
Oil on canvas, 49 x 63 inches.

Bathroom Suicide, 2003
Gouache on Mylar, 12 x 16 inches.

Trouble Spot, 2004
Gouache on Mylar, 28 x 28 inches.
[ private collection ]

Soundings, 2004
Oil on canvas with Color-aid paper, felt and pins, 60 x 60 inches.
[ Collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA, USA ]

Effervescence, 2004
Oil on Baltic Birch plywood, 60 x 60 inches.

Mishap 2, 2004
Gouache on Mylar, 18 x 24 inches.
[ private collection ]

Trace Evidence 1, 2004
Gouache on Mylar, 18 x 24 inches.
[ private collection ]

Trace Evidence 2, 2004
Gouache on Mylar, 18 x 24 inches.
[ private collection ]

Green Slip, 2005
Gouache on 140 lb.Arches CP watercolor paper, 22 x 30 inches.

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