(Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Tardella, Sally Schluter; Cole, Natalie B.
These drawings re-purpose the distorted remains of found memory, making each a new construction that is both a tribute to a personal memory and a fabrication of what I imagine was once there. Together they form a chronicle of the shadows of the artifacts of my past.
From hippie urban and rural communes emerged a lifestyle imitated on college campuses, in dorm rooms and rented houses decorated with concert bills and art nouveau-influenced poster art, and filled with various musical sounds. Years before Main Street and movies began spreading the counterculture, large numbers of college students thrived on art and experiment.