“Parker’s diminutively-scaled works reflect her passion
for the great masters of the collage medium –
Schwitters, Ernst, Höch and Cornell – however, the
particularity of her own vision emerges from its sources
in beguiling feminine perspectives, dream language,
keen compositional orderliness, and a rich new palette.”
– Stuart Denenberg, USART Expo, SF, CA
I was first introduced to collage (of sorts) in New York in the late Sixties where I was a player in Ray Johnson's
Correspondence School. I have been seriously working in the collage medium since 1987.
My work has been reviewed as an “intense response to the poetics of life suspended between the real and the
surreal" – driven by polarizing passions: poetic flights of imagination and scientific precision.
Collage is an adventure; a happening. The fascination to me is chance; the catharsis: discovery. As the
Dadaists and Surrealists realized, collage is fueled by the unconscious. This is what excites me about this
medium: the ideas that flow from chance, from a serendipitous discovery and from the spontaneous (frequently
unconscious) combining of textures and images from objets trouvés and out-of-print materials.
The lyrical vocabulary of my work reflects my playfully irreverent response to – or perhaps refuge from – the
"furious folly" of these times. This can be seen in unexpected and nonsensical imagery, such as childhood
iconography from the 50's (my comfort years) or images representing freedom and enlightenment. It can be
seen in my deconstruction and humanization of machines, and in anthropomorphic creatures uniting man and
woman and animals. My work is my way of softening the world around me and making my peace with it.
