These paintings are contemplations on the historicized landscape as a metaphor for desire, loss, and memorial. They colonize the natural world, assigning it a new purpose – to contain objects with hidden stories. The spatial organization in each work references narrative structure by placing multiple vignettes within a single frame. To establish heterogeneity the gravitational orientation of each composition shifts between the horizon’s illusionistic ground and a petri dish vantage-point. The objects (figures) sit in a neither-nor middle ground where multiple layers of space may be read as simultaneously unified and disparate.
Lace Leaf, Match Stick, Forever | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Milk Thistle Husks, Garnets, Desert | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Bunny Ear Cacti, Bendy Straws, LEGOs, White Sands | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Sandal Wood, Pine, Lake Bottom | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Burning Sage, Pocket Knife, Moonlight | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Ode to Thyme | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Virtual Diffenbachia | Acrylic on Panel | 11.5” x 13”
Returning to Seed | Acrylic on Panel | 11.5” x 13”
Reaching Funkia | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
Talk at Dusk | Acrylic on Panel | 11.5” x 13”
Watering Hole | Acrylic on Panel | 11.5” x 13”
Violet Tincture | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
Lion’s Bane | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
Waiting for Abulia | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
Dandy | Acrylic on Aluminum | 8”x 10”
Safe Keeping | Acrylic on Panel | 42″ x 60″ x 2″
Forest Eulogy | Acrylic on Panel | 42” x 60” x 2”
Golden Hour | Acrylic on Panel | 42” x 60” x 2”
Mothering Wound | Acrylic on Panel | 42” x 60” x 2”