Pamela Matsuda-Dunn - Excess of Love, Column II

Pamela Matsuda-Dunn

I was raised in Hawaii and now live in New York City, making sculptures, drawings, and photographs. My work is very controlled, but it is also about being out of control. The over-layer is about the bleeding of myth into science and mythological speculation which upends science. It is about exploring the limits of these concepts and about the transformation of materials to express these ideas. The under-layer is about repetition, which has a hard time knowing when to stop; about love, which doesn’t know how to let go; and about attraction which forbidden. My work is about the transformation of objects and the transformative power of concepts to shape our view of the world and how we experience it. The multiplicity of layers nourishes the work of making the object – researching ideas and the history of ideas, layering myths and legends, and then taking that knowledge and making it into something else. A viewer does not need to know about these strata; I hope the work itself opens a way for the viewer to conjure their own personal legends.