Tales unclaimed
For a dying mother in another land. In the backwash of timeI I can not tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.
Book publication “tales unclaimed”, Charlotte, NC, 1999
Randomly rotating leaves (glazed clay) on a mound of broken glass, control unit, sound installation, suspended found object, series of 20 analog Photographs from the Rhine river project. 1998 Tryon Center for Visual Arts in Charlotte, NC, various objects, photography, sound installation, wall painting.
“For years, Heer has used a wide variety of means - photographs, drawings, sculptural objects, installations, sound - to explore the nexus between memory and identity. By repeatedly directing attention to the way each instrument (camera lens, fabric, wax, fired clay, wood construction, etc.) partialities and distorts, by insisting upon the defamiliarising effect of close-ups, blurring, breakages, and uncommon angles of view, she has suggested that what we know of reality is, in truth, only so much as we know of the accounts of reality that we present, and re-present, to ourselves and to others. (Therefore her notion of “reality” is catholic enough to encompass wishes and fantasies, theories and dreams. What we perceive, her work implies, is a function of who we are: and who we are derives, in large part, from what we perceive.) To understand such reckonings, we must first understand the discourse - visual or verbal - in which they are expressed.”
Richard Vine, Editor and chief of Art in America