Cheryl Sorg Transformations 2002 Two copies of Transformations (a collection of poetry by Anne Sexton), handmade gold paper, tape. Paper bark Maple For several years I have been developing a body of work which explores the themes of beauty, identity, vanity, attraction, transformation, and obsession. Drawing from seemingly disparate sources- works of great literature as well as fashion, beauty, fitness and pornography magazines- I create time-intensive, elaborately constructed sculptures, collages, and installations. The pages of the books and magazines serve as both inspiration for the works and the actual source materials which I use to build the piece. For this exhibition, I cut up and reassembled the poems of Anne Sexton, who is buried at Forest Hills. Sexton wrote feminine, extremely personal, confessional, body-obsessed poetry. I became particularly interested in Transformations, a series influenced by Brothers Grimm fairy tales. These poems with their pervasive woodland and nature imagery and reoccurring themes of life and death, grieving and resurrection, provide a connective thread between my work and Forest Hills as a place of memorialization and as a beautiful landscape. List of Participating Artists

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