Won’t you talk with me / Spend some time and give me life. 2023 (SOLD)

Collage on off-white Rivoli paper backed with foam board. Again the two sets of chairs: one in color, the other in black and white, printed on acetate. Also printed on acetate are hand written lyrics from a song by the artists’s father: “Wont you talk with me / Spend some time and give me life.” The colored chairs have leaf stickers from the John Derian sticker book colored black by archival black ink pens and archival water soluble black wax pastel. A clipping of a child carrying a protest sign came from a book entitled WHY WE MARCH - SIGNS OF PROTEST AND HOPE published in 2017 that captures protest signs people made for the Women’s March on January 21st 2017. Seated in the black and white chairs from left to right is a cutting from a book called CHILDREN DRAW AND TELL - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECTIVE USES OF CHILDREN’S HUMAN FIGURE DRAWINGS by Marvin Klepsch and Laura Logie published in 1982. The book shows children’s drawings with analysis by the two adult writers. The child’s drawing that Niamh chose is analyzed as such: first The Drawer is described “Boy, 14, mildly retarded; requires special education but, since none is available to him, has to attend regular class in which he always participates” this is then followed by The Projection “Overall Impression: Insignificance, shyness, smallness” and it goes on.The text written above the boy’s drawing is his imagined thought (seen in piece 4): “...nobody sees me at all.” Niamh: “I related with that projection and felt I wanted to bring the boy into my creative world.” Next in line is a drawing with black ink on cotton of an androgynous pondering face, next another flower sticker drawn over with a black pen and finally a copy of an Andy Warhol pencil drawing that Niamh has uses repeatedly in her work. Niamh calls them walnuts. Andy believed he was drawing fruit.

9 x 6 inches unframed