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Review
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on-wood paintings are vibrant, giving added vitality to the strong images.
What Ms. Marshall has put together is unique in form and content, and remarkable in all it weaves together. She has taken the profoundly personal and made it into public ceremony in a way which changes audience into participants. This is done both through the message of the piece, but also consciously when the scripted performance is over and everyone in attendance is invited to offer responses and experiences of their own. Many of these spontaneous offerings mirror those of the performance and attest to its power to touch the common themes of our lives.
While much of the work has its genets in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Rappahannock County, it translates easily into far different contexts. The stories of the dust are not distant from us. They are in all our houses, in houses all over the world. In creating this work, Ms. Marshall has provided a form which pays homage to individual people while linking us to what transcends our human boundaries. It is art in the service of affirming life. £
Editorial Note: Meredith Rode is a professor of art and teaches studio courses and art history at the University of the District oj Columbia. Her specialization is in visual expression from an intercultural perspective.
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