Therese Zemlin's Mutation Series

Mixed-Media Wall Pieces.

The largest piece is 58x12x6". Artist-made and Japanese papers, pigment, laserprints, inkjet transfer, paint, wood reed. The moulds for producing this work were made using Adobe Illustrator and a Laser Cutter at the Boston Architecture Center.

Mutation: Two Heads. 1999. 58x12x6".

Excerpts From Sketchbooks

I'm standing at a window, inspecting the distant trees through binoculars,
searching for something unusual.

Left brain, right brain
Head brain, heart brain
Nerve endings, root balls
Brain stems, plant stems.

Mostly, we rearrange categories.

Form is reinvented and edited to convey a sense or a tendency. Do natural selection, artificial selection (meaning selection by us, as if we are not natural) and Manifest Destiny all have something in common?
Where does reinterpretation start and reinvention stop?
Perhaps they are the same thing.
I've heard that our hearts have brains. Maybe, it's more like we have two brains and one of them has a heart.
Silent yearnings become tentative attepts to flourish.
We want poetry to flow out of us, but instead, it's spit and olive pits.
Is that so bad?

Mutation: Circuitboards. 1999. 6x16x6".

Corn Mutation. 1999. 24x10x4".

Hybrid. 1999. 14x20x9".

Transmutation. 1999. 24x4x4".