Stilllife with Blue Table (Earth Quake)

The artist has always been attracted to the letterforms themselves, all twenty-six of them. She finds it a happy coincidence when the initial letter of a word reflects through its shape the object that the word represents. In STILL LIFE WITH BLUE TABLE (EARTHQUAKE), the letters T, O, V, U become a sort of visual-verbal shorthand of a still life with a Table, an Orange, a Vase, and an Urn, all slightly thrown off-kilter by the earthquake. There is always some catastrophe, never so much as today, that disrupts the stability of a still life and challenges the concept. Mixed in with the objects are four dark square shapes of varying sizes corresponding to the letters/objects. They represent the periods that grammatically follow an initial letter.