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Mapping Writers

"I am a part of all I have read."  John Kieran

"Writing has long played a part in Cindy Kane’s paintings. 

 A passionate reader, in 2006, Kane conceived a yearning to paint on the draft pages of published writers:  looseleaf sheets, notes on index cards, typescript emended by hand on the way to creating the final manuscript. Her “Mapping Writers” series was fired not by the literal meaning of the pages various authors gave her, but rather by such sensual properties as the color and shape of the penmarks, the groove where a pencil bit into the paper, the burst of mental light preserved in a sentence scribbled on a napkin.   Here, words are like fossils in the hands of a gifted paleontologist, forms that attest to the shape and vision of the vanished bodies that made them. The canvases blaze with Kane’s perception of the concentration and longing, the quick rapture and long manual labor that are a writer’s life."  

Ellen Pall