Collage Sculpture Series
Tara Eve Good unveils a new mixed media collage installation in the Time Capsule series of her collection. Good’s work explores the evolving identity of the South New Jersey shoreline—this time in repurposed cigar boxes, each containing her mixed mediums (created from using local minerals & pigments, right from the area she surveys, while using her car as a mobile studio, frequently from the side of the road) by creating expressionistic abstract watercolor landscapes, many started by using the Plein air techniques. Here, she is process painting by incorporating Regionalism & Assemblage by working with materials sourced from or made in the area. Natural pigments & minerals, are responsibly acquired from the barrier islands and incorporated into her personal signature watercolor collection. Gum arabic, glycerin, local honey, and clove oil are combined with micas, minerals, and pigments under her large glass pestle slowly grinding over recycled glass from another 1950’s “tear down”. Good states, “I’ve done as much as I can, to save whatever I could, by reclaiming and repurposing these artifacts to create portable vessels that hold our collective memories, with as much honor to the past as I could create for the future.”
The pieces are tiny monuments to the disappearing details of coastal life. They are rich with local iconography alongside her signature mica minerals. Good handcrafts her own cold wax, mining and combining images, text, and discarded objects such as salvaged model train parts—railroad cars, tracks, even miniature tanks—to root the collection in regional culture. We are reminded of the iconic biplane beach-flyers every shoobie sees from their towels on the sand. Miniature telephone poles stand tall in nearly many pieces, replicating the streets that transect the barrier islands.
These are all one of a kind pieces, using retro magazines (found in the area), from a time gone by & that could have been one of which we may have read when spending time on the beach many years ago? Ask Mr. Jacketti to see more examples and he can accommodate even the earliest of collectors.