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Kristy Deetz
Unveiled: Texts and Textures
September - October 1998

Kristy Deetz's work is largely autobiographical. She tries to make what is intangible, such as thoughts, feelings and experiences into objects that are tangible through her art. Her images interact to form visual metaphors for these intangibles. Her most recent series has focused on drapery images. She explores the ways that drapery can both cover and reveal, and be a barrier between interiors and exteriors. It becomes a substitute for the body and also for the spirit. Other symbols revolve throughout her work, objects such as tornadoes, fruit and writing. She sometimes carves poems into her pieces which are translated into runes or ogham to intertextualize connections and suggest the timelessness of both classic and modern poems.

Deetz carves, burns, and paints with encaustic on wooden surfaces. She also includes materials such as beeswax, twigs and other objects that change the surface of her work. A mixture of metaphor and symbolism, Deetz explores the use of images on both physical and spiritual levels.


	Kristy Deetz Unveiled: Texts and Textures September - October 1998
	Kristy Deetz's work is largely autobiographical. She tries to make what is intangible, such as thoughts, feelings and experiences into objects that are tangible through her art. Her images interact to form visual metaphors for these intangibles. Her most recent series has focused on drapery images. She explores the ways that drapery can both cover and reveal, and be a barrier between interiors and exteriors. It becomes a substitute for the body and also for the spirit. Other symbols revolve throughout her work, objects such as tornadoes, fruit and writing. She sometimes carves poems into her pieces which are translated into runes or ogham to intertextualize connections and suggest the timelessness of both classic and modern poems. Deetz carves, burns, and paints with encaustic on wooden surfaces. She also includes materials such as beeswax, twigs and other objects that change the surface of her work. A mixture of metaphor and symbolism, Deetz explores the use of images on both physical and spiritual levels.