Linda's profile
I was born and raised in a small backwards town in Carroll County Maryland. I earned a BA in Visual and Performing Arts with emphasis in Photography from University of Maryland Baltimore County and a MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently, I travel to Ukraine several times a year to work with orphans and the elderly. I make them keepsake albums.
Art is not therapy, but is therapeutic.
Art is my way of expressing those things I can’t voice. The head of children’s psychology at Johns Hopkins wanted to place me in an institution away from society. Being labeled as an outcast or the odd child created many psychological difficulties, and I found art as a haven for my expressions. Dealing with psychological turmoil at an early age, I discovered the healing nature of Art. In middle school, art fulfilled my emotional voids, because puberty produced chaos within me, because I didn’t understand what was happening inside of me. During my adult life, Art re-enforced that voice of my complexities and difficulties with my life experiences.
As a child, I grew up under an anti-Semitic father, who brainwashed me into the Neo-Nazi believes. During my undergraduate career, my thesis dealt with the dangerous of racism and childhood, entitled, It’s Scarry Then You Think. This project was a photomontage in spirit of the work of John Heartfield in the AIZ. Each image is fabricated from two stills; the background of an illustration from the Richard Scarry book and foreground black & white historical photographs from the Nazi area. These assembles generate a fascinating juxtaposing between the illustration and photograph, because childish imagery imitates the horror of the historical photographs. This series exposes my experiences with the dangerous nature of rearing a child into racism.
As an adult, I was diagnosed with Bipolar, PTSD and Asperger’s Syndrome. My graduate thesis revealed the ideas of living with a mental illness and that I'm invisible to the outside world. I fabricated an installation entitled, Forbidden Knowledge.
This installation played on the object of the refrigerator in our homes, employing such an everyday items is influence of Duchamp’s Readymades. The outside of the refrigerator contains many personal effects, i.e. prescriptions forms, doctor appointment cards, photographs, etc… but inside is filled with the nutrition of our daily lives. My doors led to a world most have never experienced or only had nightmares of. The doors depicted my struggles with a choric mental illness. The outside was adored with nonsense of Magnetic Poetry, and empty prescription bottles filled the inside.
Art is not therapy, but is therapeutic.
Art is my way of expressing those things I can’t voice. The head of children’s psychology at Johns Hopkins wanted to place me in an institution away from society. Being labeled as an outcast or the odd child created many psychological difficulties, and I found art as a haven for my expressions. Dealing with psychological turmoil at an early age, I discovered the healing nature of Art. In middle school, art fulfilled my emotional voids, because puberty produced chaos within me, because I didn’t understand what was happening inside of me. During my adult life, Art re-enforced that voice of my complexities and difficulties with my life experiences.
As a child, I grew up under an anti-Semitic father, who brainwashed me into the Neo-Nazi believes. During my undergraduate career, my thesis dealt with the dangerous of racism and childhood, entitled, It’s Scarry Then You Think. This project was a photomontage in spirit of the work of John Heartfield in the AIZ. Each image is fabricated from two stills; the background of an illustration from the Richard Scarry book and foreground black & white historical photographs from the Nazi area. These assembles generate a fascinating juxtaposing between the illustration and photograph, because childish imagery imitates the horror of the historical photographs. This series exposes my experiences with the dangerous nature of rearing a child into racism.
As an adult, I was diagnosed with Bipolar, PTSD and Asperger’s Syndrome. My graduate thesis revealed the ideas of living with a mental illness and that I'm invisible to the outside world. I fabricated an installation entitled, Forbidden Knowledge.
This installation played on the object of the refrigerator in our homes, employing such an everyday items is influence of Duchamp’s Readymades. The outside of the refrigerator contains many personal effects, i.e. prescriptions forms, doctor appointment cards, photographs, etc… but inside is filled with the nutrition of our daily lives. My doors led to a world most have never experienced or only had nightmares of. The doors depicted my struggles with a choric mental illness. The outside was adored with nonsense of Magnetic Poetry, and empty prescription bottles filled the inside.
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