The work exhibited on this website represents a portion of my work and is available for public exhibition. Currently, I am working on a new series based upon the four-hundred haikus that I wrote between 2002-2004. In retrospect, the haikus foretold my move from Los Angeles to Boise. The work currently is unfolding in the beginning stages, as drawings on 24" x 48" wood panels. While not attempting to illustrate the haikus, they are a source for the creation of new visual poems that in the end, may behold an interactive element.
Reclamation has become integral to my working process. Cigarette lighters were the first item that I obsessively gathered during daily walks on Long Beach in Southern California. After learning the detrimental effects that discarded plastics have on marine life, the lighter reclamation began. After two years of walking the waterline, I reclaimed over 2,000 plastic cigarette lighters in a three mile stretch of beach. The lighters are now housed at the education center of the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care Center.
Upon moving to Idaho, my collecting continues with a modest number of reclaimed shotgun and handgun shell casings. For over two and a half years, I have been saving my hair shed during daily showers. These minute "nests" are gestating into a new series of work. The nature of this work will be revealed, once its destiny has been determined.
Jill Fitterer
Upon moving to Idaho, my collecting continues with a modest number of reclaimed shotgun and handgun shell casings. For over two and a half years, I have been saving my hair shed during daily showers. These minute "nests" are gestating into a new series of work. The nature of this work will be revealed, once its destiny has been determined.
Jill Fitterer
