<HTML> <TITLE>Luane Abend Davis</TITLE> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#397171" LINK="#BE5941"> <! -- Site designed by AGENCY.COM - info@agency.com --> <CENTER> <IMG WIDTH="465" HEIGHT="30" ALT="Art" SRC="../../../Images/art_top.gif"> <P> <IMG WIDTH="330" HEIGHT="162" ALT="Art" SRC="../Images/title.gif"> <HR WIDTH=85%> </CENTER> <P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <B>S:</B> I look at your collage and wonder which came first, the idea of the chicken or the picture of the chicken? How do these pieces happen?<p> <B>L:</B> Sometimes I'll see an image and I'll see what can happen with it. Most of the time I scan the images at my disposal and pick something that strikes me. <A HREF="luane7.html"><IMG BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" WIDTH="209" HEIGHT="37" ALT="Art" SRC="../Images/l7.gif"></A> Then I'll add to it, and I'll have a stack of things that I think <i>might</i> work. And then, I just get to work on it. Something usually arises out of that work that I haven't planned. I bring things together from different contexts until an image emerges that, in reality, couldn't be. I can't think of a time when I haven't been surprised at what happens, at the layered images that unfold. It feels as though it's not really coming <i>from</i> me, but coming <i>through</i> me. <P> <B>S:</B> Your work has, I hate to say it but, well, a religious overtone. Sometimes subtle, sometimes overt, sometimes earthy Native American, sometimes Judeo-Christian. <A HREF="luane6.html"><IMG BORDER="0" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="215" HEIGHT="37" ALT="Art" SRC="../Images/l6.gif"></A><P> <B>L:</B> I've noticed that (laughs). <P> <B>S:</B> It's not cultivated? <P> <B>L:</B> I don't do it consciously. My awareness is naturally drawn to archetypal images. I think my unconscious is compelled to portray these images and let them play in these unusual visual contexts. <P> <B>S:</B> Another interesting thing is the media you work on. The work is more than the image, it's also the environment. How did that evolve? <A HREF="luane8.html"><IMG BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" WIDTH="199" HEIGHT="35" ALT="Art" SRC="../Images/l8.gif"></A> <P> <B>L:</B> I was working on general metalsmithing techniques and, kind of coincidentally, I received a newsletter from the people who make the transfer material I have used to put these images on fabric. They were talking about using it with metal, so I just incorporated what I was doing in metalsmithing and made wall hangings -- collage on aluminum framed by copper. Whatever medium I choose, I keep coming back to collage. Collage on metal, on fabric, glass, mirror. </BLOCKQUOTE> <A HREF="luane9.html"><IMG BORDER="0" ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="333" HEIGHT="35" ALT="Art" SRC="../Images/l9.gif"></A> <BR CLEAR="ALL"> <PRE> </PRE> <CENTER> <A HREF="luane13.html"><IMG BORDER="0" WIDTH="243" HEIGHT="65" ALT="Art" SRC="../Images/l13.gif"></A><P><A HREF="alt2.html"><IMG SRC="../Images/next.gif" ALT="Back to TOC" BORDER=0></A> <HR WIDTH=85%> <P> <ADDRESS>© Copyright 1995 Urban Desires</ADDRESS> </CENTER> <P> </BODY> </HTML>