Samoa (Blue Flight Pattern)
Samoa (Blue Flight Pattern)
Colored Pencil & Postage Stamp on Paper
11” x 11”
Framed in Light Wood: 15” x 15”
Andrea Moreau
‘s drawings function as personal interpretations of political or commercial propaganda. Beginning with imagery found on postage stamps or printed advertisements and using the visual logic and graphic language of the image, she attempts to tease out a larger framework from which to consider it. Finished pieces often incorporate printed matter and cultural detritus, which gives them an immediate and tactile connection to the world of objects.
Andrea is particularly interested in the postage stamp as a geographical artifact, and through her drawing process, attempts to learn something about a place by studying its official imagery and then creating a world beyond the borders of its fragmentary scenes. The finished drawings and paintings are a record of this study; they are a dialogue between the printed and the drawn, the official and the personal, the real and the imaginary. They are a metaphor for the way in which we conjure the places we hear about on the news and read about in books, using the tiniest pieces of information to construct a reality that most likely bears little resemblance to any actual place.