this is everything; it was everything (to me)
by Mimi Ozormoor
8 x 10 mixed media reversible accordion fold book with with mono/relief/screen printed pages (with the pages stretched out it is about 67 inches, based on my physical height) the cover is screenprint, decoden cream + cabochon/found objects/stickers on fabric and mylar. “Entranced by the picturesqueness of what is brought before us, we are mistakenly convinced this fleeting moment in life is the most beautiful — that it’s the absolute of our happiness — that it’s everything. It is not only it has gone away that we realize how much our desire for happiness and comfort can often distort our memories of the past, and ever moments of the present. Once we read into these moments we had naively thought of as the best that had happened to us; we discover that we did not have as much of an understanding of reality as we had once thought. We often neglect ourselves and others in the pursuit of the illusion of permanent stability.” it’s about disillusionment. it’s about unfolding a situation after the fact and discovering how much pain was endured trying to avoid giving something up. it’s reading it back and forth, going between is and was, not realizing what’s continuing the cycle.