Vietnam Letters
"Normally Gilbert embalms her ambiguous memorials with a waxy buildup of medium which clouds the framents of text or image interred beneath." "Gilbert's works question the boundaries of the medium. Her books have been described as 'memorials to people, places and temporal moments that could also be considered itineraries of her experience.'" Or, as the artist herself says, "The visual and the verbal are added to one another. In no case is simple illustration the motive. The norm of linear narrative has been subverted."
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mixed/photo media bookwork
Kristen Struebing-Beazley, "The Knowing Voice of the Child,"
Southern Arts Federation/NEA Catalog, New Art Examiner
Laura L. Quinn, Stories From Her Catalog
mixed media assemblage
"A corroded black metal box becomes the repository for thirteen "pages" of found photographs embalmed in a waxy coating reminiscent of the animal fat of Joseph Beuys. Posed shots of family members from World War I are collaged with torn details from a 1950's engineering journal. These are parts of men in military uniform with gas mask, a pair of sisters, a baby and a cannon blast, juxtaposed with fragmented messages celebrating the new achievements of high technology. An unnameable disease seems to have eaten away pictures, words and diagrams, and a magnifying glass has been placed in the box to help the viewer decipher its cryptic contents."
Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Helicon Nine Journal
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