STATEMENT
Heather D. Freeman • Department of Art • University of North Carolina - Charlotte • 9201 University City Blvd. • Charlotte, NC 28223 • 704-687-6187 • hdfreema@email.uncc.edu

As a child, I loved science, but Western science’s tendency to dismiss anything that threatened standing theories bothered me.  Western science shoved myth under the heading of social anthropology, conveniently rendering it harmless.  I did not want to challenge science, but I wanted to expand mythology: to create my own.

Since the inception of the scientific method, politics, political religion, blind-sighting skepticism, and the violent desire for the accuracy of a (false) hypothesis have all perverted this system’s elegance and effectiveness.  Today, both academe and industry struggle with their own demons to preserve the scientific method, in order to discover “Truth”.

I am particularly interested n the language and symbolic forms of science and where these intersect with mythic, religious and popular iconographies.  I believe science has merged with popular culture to become a covertly “universal” religion.  This is the unacknowledged religion of the “truth” we seek on television, in the movies, in comic books and video games. I am particularly interested in ways we import these very public and secular languages and symbols into the very private languages of family, friendships and spirituality.

I now look for “Truths”, myths, superstitions and expectations of the past to see where reality may lie -- but also to point out and accentuate its occasional absurdity. In my art, I postulate, explore and divulge these ideas, thereby forming, simultaneously, my own applied mythologies and my own private science.