TRANSFORMATIONS
These images involve Sr. Mary Jacque's interpretation of the human figure and human
emotions as they are revealed in various examples of cemetery art.
These images are a new way of looking at a lost art form which has its
root in the most ancient and dear of human traditions: honoring the
memory of the dead. They are a popular effort to sentimentalize a force
that refuses to cooperate with the attempt. They convey the irrepressible
coming of death which is at best diffused by our efforts to make it
somehow more appealing. The maimed and corroded nature of the
monuments (which is exaggerated and enhanced by the computer) is
another layer of pathos which adds to the emotional reaction to this work.
This work was done on the first computer that Sr. Mary Jacque had, a Commodore
Amiga (may it rest in peace). They were printed by a Xerox 4020 ink
jet printer.
These images were scanned into the computer from photographs
which Sr. Mary Jacque took. Some of the cemeteries she visited were Bonaventure
Cemetery in Savannah, GA, Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore, MD,
and various other cemeteries in Georgia and Maryland.
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