Victoria began her career as a filmmaker and then a painter working from photographic setups enhanced with paint. In the last few years she has kept the photographic setups but used the computer instead of paint to pull out a kind of floating connection to what originally intrigued her. For Victoria, the photograph has become a form with which she documents one reality before reinventing and creating others through the computer. The result is an otherworldly hybrid that simultaneously evokes future and past. She wants the viewer to have the freedom to interpret each piece within the framework of multiple meanings.

Artist Statement

FLOATING SIGNIFIERS* is three years of work. I took an element, in this case, the nipple, and began a process of stripping it of its conventional meanings. The plan was to transform the familiar into the unfamiliar, expand the dialogue by having the viewer push boundaries to the point of a multi-layer experience. The narrative is there lurking, but the transformative process, edgy and abstract, becomes the essential action. In this series of sixteen works, the motif, like a musical theme, is stretched, battered, infused and finally experienced as personal truth. *Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss coined the term FLOATING SIGNIFIERS: Denotes a signifier without a reference such as a word that doesn’t point to any actual object or agreed upon meaning.