Maria Dumlao

Interrogation Mark involves gathering both violent images from the current war in Iraq and pastoral images from various lifestyle magazines and books. In the tradition of collage, the images are digitally combined in a way that suggest that dread, violence, and general pathos underpin popular images promoted in our culture.

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Website: http://www.mariadumlao.com

My studio practice involves investigative marveling and drawing �what if� scenarios. Much of it involves long hours pouring over films, videos, texts, and other media from which I harvest images and material. I work in a variety of media, including photography, artist books, installation, performance, sound, and video. I use different media as a means to highlight interstitial moments, background sound, shadows, and overlooked details to bring marginalized content to the foreground.I explore the negative spaces, the places in between, part of, or around the presented images, spaces, places, and issues. I zoom into the periphery and center the margins. I trace the erased marks and record the hushed sounds. I dig for what falls into the cracks, and scratch what�s been whited out. I rewind to what happens before, and skip ahead to what happens after the frame.

Categories: Web, Teaching Artist, Public Art, Playwriting / Screenwriting, Photography, Performance Art, Multi-Cultural, Mixed Media, Media / Communications, Lighting, Installation / Site Specific, Editing, Drawing, Directing, Contemporary / Modern, Conceptual, Computer Art / New Media, Camera, Audio / Sound, Artist Books, Activism, Visual Arts, Multi-Discipline, Sound / Audio, Film / Video, Computer Arts / Digital