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ReBecca Gozion
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ARTIST STATEMENT
 

.."ReBecca Gozion conveys the anguish of someone who desperately is trying to communicate, although in a mode that is jumbled, illogical, and generally indecipherable to others"....  
 
"Letters and words are often written backwards or upside down, and are interspersed with numbers and signs.  English shifts to German in places, and at times the language is an incomprehensible mixture of fabrication.  There are also erasures and smudges. 
 
"Although the text is virtually impossible to read, the agony of its mournful voice is unmistakable.  Indeed, the voice refuses to remain silent even when it speaks in a void.  In one sense, the voice seems to be searching for its own language, and in another sense it seems to be in the process of wiping out the languages it has learned.  Given its visual character and compositional style, the voice also seems to be in rebellion against the conventions of a unified, ordered code and any centered, hierarchical structure. . . "
 Sidra Stich
"New World (Dis)Order: The Question of Identity"
Northern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts:  1993