The Painted Closet
 

In the early seventeenth century, Lady Anne Drury of Suffolk painted a collection of small, allegorical pictures, which she housed in a specially designed closet. These painted panels served as objects of meditation.

 

This series re-works Lady Anne’s project. Following her lead, I adopted the practice of recycling and repurposing the work of previous artists. Also like her, I worked in solitude (in both projects, the term ‘closet’ alludes to personal, secret stuff). Despite these similarities, the two closets are very different: Instead of clarity, ambiguity. Instead of transcendence, immanence. And instead of Puritanical certainty, twenty-first century doubt.