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by Richard Preston

The distinguishing feature of my art is a fascination with texture. This grows out of a devotion to touch, a touch that can be physical, emotional, and/or intellectual. Each of these may be experienced in a reclusive relationship with self or in the social relationships with others, but , central to these is a decisive connection to space/location which is best described as a sense of 'homeness".

Reflecting on Judy Chicago's (and co-artists) defense of "women's art" and Louise Nevelson's archaeology of a lost domesticity" I create these kitchen icons to honour those that have used the different elements (and to link them with each other through the construction), celebrate the role women have traditionally occupied as "makers of home" and to beautify and spiritualize what I consider to be the center of the center -- the kitchen.

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