"In order to liberate myself from the past, I have to reconstruct it, ponder about it, make a statue out of it and get rid of it through making sculpture," Louise Bourgeois famously declared, "I'm able to forget it afterwards. I have paid my debt to the past and I am liberated." For Paz Perlman, a conceptual artist born in Israel and based in New York City, Bourgeois' words constitute a mythos to live by. Perlman's multimedia sculptures and bricolage, often grid-like tapestries of found twigs, ...
"In order to liberate myself from the past, I have to reconstruct it, ponder about it, make a statue out of it and get rid of it through making sculpture," Louise Bourgeois famously declared, "I'm able to forget it afterwards. I have paid my debt to the past and I am liberated." For Paz Perlman, a conceptual artist born in Israel and based in New York City, Bourgeois' words constitute a mythos to live by. Perlman's multimedia sculptures and bricolage, often grid-like tapestries of found twigs, ...
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