is a web site and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered/Transexual (LGBT) webzine dedicated to the sources of creativity. Excerpts from author and teacher Janet Mason's manuscript "TEA LEAVES: A Memoir Of Mothers And Daughters" are published on the site monthly, and the site presents Janet's poetry as well as several excerpts from her forthcoming novel, "Hitching to Nirvana". Janet selects an author, musician or artist to be featured monthly on the site, and past selections have included Maria Fama, Alexandra Grilikhes, Alix Dobkin, Sally Bellerose, and Barbara McPherson. Visitors to the site will also find information on the Continuing Education classes taught by Janet at Temple University in Philadelphia, and will enjoy Janet's book and audio reviews.
ARTIST STATEMENT: My work documents the co-presence of built and non-built environments — exploring the relationships within and between these constructed environments. In particular, I am interested in temporal proximities and social and cultural coding within the confines of these spaces. Some of my earlier work chronicles barren constructed environments consumed with the use of empty space as its only, yet necessary, action. My work then extended to a surveying of constructed environments that contained overt activity — with the built environment now receding as its pictorial "set". As a current tier to my work, the suburban front lawn has served as the perfect scape to merge my explorations of the interplay of constructed, the cultivated and domestic coded activity — be it actual or fictional. Some of my most recent work involves creating and controlling micro-sized constructed space; these temporary constructs are infused and coded within personal domestic memoryscapes.
