Life on Your Own – Debbie White
February 28 – April 11
This exhibit is inspired by everyday life and objects that don’t exist but should. It started during Covid, with objects isolated in separate boxes; some of the objects have broken free by now.
Artist’s Statement
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”—L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Nevertheless, I will say this about the things that make me notice them: I don’t know why they do. I can point to them. But I can’t point to it. And trying to explain it contributes nothing.
I will say this, too: I don’t create as much as adjust things that are off. It is loosening a tie, removing tight shoes, readjusting a pillow, straightening a picture on a wall. Relief.
Or: I make mistakes, and I then try to fix them. Problem solving.
My work most likely springs from my upbringing by a cartoonist parent, Al Scaduto. The visual vocabulary of each piece is a conversation of sorts between color, shape, and form. I live in Lowell, MA, and teach philosophy at UMASS Lowell.