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"...In
the early work-- the presentation of automatic scripts such
as Sisters
of Menon
and Get
William--
direct evidence is set out in the form of the original hand-written
scripts with simple type-written transcriptions arranged in
such a way as to suggest the non-linear, a- logical nature
of the messages, securing attention to the messages the works
exist to mediate and eliminating the subjective presence,
the personality, of the artist. Significantly, the Photomat
Self-portraits disguise and deface her appearance, disclose
only fragments of her face and body, and begin, in any case,
with the 'work' of an automatic machine incapable of interpretation....
Her project is to establish the multiplicity of our identity,
to secure the knowledge that the individual self is a dynamic
outcome of a process of representations, the meanings of which
may in many cases be hidden from us...Art, like dreams, is
a means of access to the largely unmapped space where the
suppressed, the forgotten and the unknown are to be discovered
in order that they may be brought into and transform our waking
discourse with reality...
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