EMMY CATEDRAL
I first wrote about Emmy Catedral's work in 2005 as a result of her participation in a group show, "Geography of Now," that featured her installation which addressed margins and marginality. You can see that article online at Our Own Voice , but I also replicated it in my book SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems) because I so appreciated her work that I used one of its images as a cover image to one of my books: Catedral would come to create a mini-installation through the use of a shadow box that she sent to me, along with a prototype for a note-pad crafted from margins. As I now write about my appreciation of these particular pieces, I consider my thoughts a continuation of what I expressed in the Our Own Voice article whose ending includes this excerpt: ... one of the most brilliant works from Catedral’s series goes back to the roots of her exploration. That is, after cutting out the margins and lines from legal pads, she glued the paper pieces back together. B...