To Whom It May Concern: 1---- Title: Expectations Artist: Margarita Weiner Contact: (626) 254 - 1544, 611 Woodruff Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 Description: Eggs in window Media: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 60 inches x 48 inches Intent of work: "Expectations" draws a connection between population and potential. The window locates the eggs within the human, or social state, and looks at home as the important starting point for the development of the individual. The abundance of eggs puts the burden of the future on the viewer. How does one, looking at his or her own home family, children, attempt to deal with the problem of population and the direction of societal development? 2---- Title: Losing Face Artist: Margarita Weiner Contact: (626) 254 - 1544, 611 Woodruff Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 Description: The America flag void of color, bull charging aggressively Media: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 60 inches x 36 inches Intent of work: The fighting bull is an instance of power placed, by human endeavor within a field of calculated risk. The stakes involve life and death. The bull fight is a sport or game indicating the faculty of choice within the human sphere. The faded American flag corresponds to the necessary loss of life figured into the rules of the game. Might not the flag have more color and thereby more distinction if the rules of the game did not necessitate total loss of one of the participants? 3---- Title: A Small Picture Artist: Margarita Weiner Contact: (626) 254 - 1544, 611 Woodruff Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 Description: The Statue of Liberty partially hidden behind sand dunes, and a shadow of person walking the crest of a sand dune. Media: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 60 inches x 48 inches Intent of work: This is a painting depicting a photo album frame with a photo of a walking person only evidenced by a shadow, and the American icon of freedom looking over. The desert is where only the most insistent and resilient of things can grow. Does freedom exhibit this resilience? Or, is it merely a picture, a fantasy image that we falsely belive we can attain? 4---- Title: Disposer Artist: Margarita Weiner Contact: (626) 254 - 1544, 611 Woodruff Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 Description: Empty egg shells near disposer Media: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 60 inches x 36 inches Intent of work: This image converses with "Expectations" about the prospects and the loss of human potential, the discord and the removal of unwanted things, its use is beneficial when utilized in measure. How do we dispose of human potential? Where does human ingenuity become a counter force to human potential? 5---- Title: Mad Dogs Artist: Margarita Weiner Contact: (626) 254 - 1544, 611 Woodruff Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 Description: Cable jumpers that look like mad dogs being contained by borders Media: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 36 inches x 48 inches Intent of work: These are connector cables which direct the flow of energy, usually from a stronger source to a weaker one. This is a hopeful scene problematized by the countenance of aggression on the cable jaws. Can useful connections be made toward the end of self sustenance in the face of hostility and aggression? So, do these channels of energy simply remain unattached and useless due to the aggression on the face of things? How do mad dogs make positive connections? 6---- Title: Tension Artist: Margarita Weiner Contact: (626) 254 - 1544, 611 Woodruff Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 Description: Hand grenade behind veil with tension lines Media: Acrylic on canvas Dimension: 60 inches x 48 inches Intent of work: This is an inert object that does not influence the balance of things, but ceases and controls all facets of balance within it. It's the hyper extended moment of total uncertainty. Margarita Weiner