This piece is about climate change and is part of a slow, ongoing series where I explore the challenge of expressing ideas or emotions through purely formal elements--almost nonrepresentational, but not quite. I stained the wood to resemble sewing pattern tissue pieces, wanting them to feel safe and familiar while also symbolizing a simplified cityscape, urban and industrial. The artificial ...
This piece is about climate change and is part of a slow, ongoing series where I explore the challenge of expressing ideas or emotions through purely formal elements--almost nonrepresentational, but not quite. I stained the wood to resemble sewing pattern tissue pieces, wanting them to feel safe and familiar while also symbolizing a simplified cityscape, urban and industrial. The artificial pink and yellow color palette suggest a pretty but polluted sunset. I replaced pattern cutting directions with familiar lines from the Book of Common Prayer, and turned them backwards to slow the viewer down and express the idea of an entrenched belief below the surface. The tired and torn postage message expresses the desire for an answer. The latch is open and moveable, but where is the door?
Flags (not just national flags) feel primal and emotional to me and I'm intrigued by their enormous potency as totems. I created this piece a few years into the economic crisis, it's 5' tall--grey tissue on painted baltic birch. I have more recently used it as the inspiration for my "VOTE!" poster for the 2018 midterms--one o...
Flags (not just national flags) feel primal and emotional to me and I'm intrigued by their enormous potency as totems. I created this piece a few years into the economic crisis, it's 5' tall--grey tissue on painted baltic birch. I have more recently used it as the inspiration for my "VOTE!" poster for the 2018 midterms--one of the most fulfilling projects I've ever worked on. You can read an essay about that here. Creating the vote poster induced me to create a series of limited edition hand pulled screen prints using the poster image, but without the word 'vote'--these prints are kind of bridge between the original and the poster.
This piece is about facing my parents frailty and confusion in the last years of their lives and my seeking to reach them--the rolled up missive inside the bottle bobbing in the waves. I frequently use letter-writing, stamps, postmarks, envelopes and bottles to explore all the ways we attempt to express ourselves and communicate with each other.
This piece is about facing my parents frailty and confusion in the last years of their lives and my seeking to reach them--the rolled up missive inside the bottle bobbing in the waves. I frequently use letter-writing, stamps, postmarks, envelopes and bottles to explore all the ways we attempt to express ourselves and communicate with each other.
This is another piece in the evolving Worship Your Ancestors Series. Artifacts, fragments, stories. Somebody else's memories.
This piece is about taking care of someone when they cannot take care of themselves. Circles within circles. My usual tools of expression--tissue paper, charcoal, pastels, glue.