christine karapetian

I work intuitively using mostly found materials.The process of cutting, pasting, adding, subtracting, and often scraping is how I explore. Unpredictability is embedded in this process. It is mysterious and often reveals surprises which is why I am drawn to it. 

Materials have a physical presence and also carry history, including the serendipitous moment of finding them. This history does not necessarily enter into the meaning of the work for the viewer, but is important to me. It remains, like an invisible thread, embedded into the final work.

I am Armenian-American, the offspring of a people whose history is rooted in Diaspora. My intuitive response to this lack of place and the negation of history, by some, is to make objects that trace to, and build onto a collective memory.