Statement In her paintings and installations, Factor generates personalized maps of what is unseen and intuited in the places she visits. Maps may appear in her art, but the works themselves become larger maps of her subconscious. For Factor, a mental map is the composite of elements of exterior realities combined with instantaneous interior impressions of a place gathered in an intuitive manner. In her paintings, drawings, and installations, multiple and contradictory views of one place will appear, an urban skyline, the un-lettered sign from an abandoned shop, the balloons from a car dealership are combined with uncodified or ineffable information such as diminishing coils of color bands or asteroid-like map pieces shooting out of an exploding star. The paintings help to reveal how our internal landscape is shaped by the external landscape we are surrounded by.
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