Neighborhood Series, Encaustic, Carbon, Oil, Spray Paint, Indigo, Sharpie on Wood and Canvas 2016-present
Works here are built through layering in a visual language derived from natural and manmade observations during neighborhood walks. The encaustic wax allows for incised line and collaged carbon transfer from drawings and photographs of objects. The series celebrates how the combination of organic and inorganic materials result in the character and sense of place of a community, while dancing with the tension that can arise through the pressures of population, as the neighborhood inevitably changes.
Encaustic, Mixed Media Works on Wood and Canvas
Play Series, Encaustic, Oil and Carbon on Wood 2015-2020
During the hours spent on the playground with my son and his friends, I witnessed the joy and innocence of youth, as I realized the diminishing of my own. That created a hyper sense of nostalgia and consideration for our collective chapters shifting simultaneously. With an element of pop art, only not commercial, I am drawn to daily objects that capture a shared recollection. The red ball and jacks, with their classic imagery and my beloved sphere, permeated my pieces and found a narrative in land and sky. Later, fortune tellers, the paper creations that answer questions, worked into the series. These pieces will forever remind me of that magical and temporal space in time.
