MARGARET JO FELDMAN
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Sound waves created from gun shots recorded during  mass shooting in Las Vegas, Stoneman Douglas High School, and Pulse Night Club.  Sound is just one of the markers of these tragic events.  The pieces when turned from the original reading of a sound wave become a type of portrait.
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      Pulse
      Laser Cut Wool Felt
      H. 20 x W. 9"
​     2019
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Parkland
Laser Cut Wool Felt
​H. 24 x W. 11"
​2019
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     Las Vegas
     Laser cut Wool Felt
​     H. 31 x W. 15"
     2019


​Hair Piece


This piece explores the transitory nature of memory. These hair portraits reflect my struggle with memory and the method of using hair as a memory devise  to try and remember the many students I taught during my first year as a teacher in Chicago.  Hair becomes a metaphor for memory because of its ephemeral quality. By omitting the details of faces and just focusing on the hair, these portraits reflect the limitations of memory.
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Hair Piece
100 - 6 x 9" oil on canvas
2003
Portraits
This piece began with a desire to paint a portrait of a friend who was leaving the country and I would not see again for many years.  My friend would not let me use his face for the portrait, but instead  gave me a beat up jacket that he had worn for years and told me to use that.   It turned out that the jacket represented more about him than his face would.  I used this idea as a jumping off point to ask other friends, co-workers and acquaintances to pick a shirt, jacket or sweater they felt represented something about themselves to paint a portrait from.  Each person had a poignant story to tell and deepened my experience of what a portrait is.   ​
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Portraits
24 - 8 x 10" oil on canvas
​1998-2000

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