The Camps

Artist Statement

From 1989 through 1993, my artwork and accompanying research focused solely on the history and legacy of the Holocaust. My process included several trips to Poland, Austria, Germany, the former Czechoslovakia, and the former Soviet Union. I went to concentration camps, Jewish cemeteries, surviving synagogues, former Jewish neighborhoods and German steel plants. I photographed everything I could and used the photographs themselves in mixed media work. The "camp" pieces were the first I did and focused on the sites most consider at the center of the Holocaust, the concentration camps. The two resulting series incorporate sections of photographs I took in 1989 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek and Stutthof, all in Poland.