Some Cool Things About Margaret DeLima

I read Margaret DeLima's Artist Statement, and am currently going through her online art portfolio. I can feel my brain whirring while I evaluate her persona. Her Statement was really well developed, and reeked with intelligence. Seriously, it was a condensed Pollock of big words!

Her portfolio is so eccentric and intriguing. I especially love Baby Writing 2. It shows the progression of a woman's life in blue and some lady with an egg, connecting the pregnant woman to the reptile lady thing sitting on the egg. The piece has simplistic forms and shapes, but a complex meaning. A lot of the other ones seem to be saying something, but I tend to have no idea what.

I can notice myself projecting in ideas, such as the progression of "i" to "I" and back and forth to be dealing with identity changes as you get older and older, but then the next Baby Writing had a progression of "s," which I did not understand.

MiniSymmtrical Studies of Babies was... kinda creepy. The babies look like grossly miscolored froggies. Yucky.

And now I am reading her Artist Statement, and therefore an extra layer of the episdomalogical lasagna is tacked on. She says that this series of Childhood drawings is the firmness in which children write. They don't doubt themselves for any action, and blurt out exactly what they're thinking.

Geometry of Me is interesting. I feel like DeLima deals a lot with body issues; she seems to be grappling with bodies in spaces and the breakdown of the body. In Measuring Me, she has elongated bodies next to a few paragraphs of numbers according to S for Small, M for medium, L for Large and X for something else. Me in Mirrors shows the different imperfections she sees in herself when she looks at herself at different times.

Reading this Artist Statement, I'm appreciating just how serious she seems to be about psychogeography. She uses materials she wears to make her artwork about body image, something that wraps itself around itself, contextualizing the whole piece. I like the quote "Angles not Angels" that she incorporates into her artwork, using it to demonstrate what "angels" i.e. girls really are, which is angles and space.

Self Portrait in a Cookie Box, from the Eating and Comforting gallery, has a paper mache baby inside of an Entemains box. Things like this are so puzzling that they make you curious. I think the most I got out of this research is that I'm about to meet a very interesting lady that I want to be questioning constantly: Why this? Why like that? How?