in collaboration with Virginia Bradley
Minnesota State University Gallery 1993
CHIMERA: n.1.Greek Myth. A fire breathing she-monster usually represented as a composite of lion, a goat and serpent. 2. A creation of the imagination; an impossible or foolish fancy. 3 Biology. An organism, especially a plant, containing tissues from at least two genetically distinct parents.
The Chimera project began as a transatlantic "fax work" collaboration and led to a comprehensive exhibition, comprising of large scale drawing on heavyweight Indian papers, alongside related works in collage and assemblage. Two collaborative books were also completed and displayed on a "tiled" steel installation, reflecting the construction of the drawings.
The books were based upon two exchanged antique publications; The Handy Scientific Encyclopaedia (1886) and The Drawing Room Scrapbook (1851). This subject matter mirrored the contrast and resolution of opposites that characterised the collaboration, as shifts occurred between understatement and overstatement, male and female, ethereality and realism, etc.,