OBJECT
After my mother’s death, I explored the objects in her house not only as functional, but sculptural artifacts. I wanted to reframe my own seeing of these objects in the present, apart from memory. These collages play with Nicolai Hartmann’s ontological approaches in aesthetics where works are fictions. The perception of these objects as once things-in-themself, altered, duplicated, and flattened, requires imaginings occasioned by our aesthetic experience as background. These collages are fictions that depend upon the imaginative and perceptual activities of myself and the audience. Once printed, these works were mailed as postcards.