The ‘ORIGINS’ Series
Photograph with encaustic wax. A kind of Big Bang. Divine intervention . The birth and expansion of thought. Moving from a state of nothingness into matter. Creation in a vast cosmic mist.
Photograph with encaustic wax. A kind of Big Bang. Divine intervention . The birth and expansion of thought. Moving from a state of nothingness into matter. Creation in a vast cosmic mist.
Photograph with encaustic wax. Gaseous atmospheric happenings. Vaporous airspace. Volatile, toxic, and threatening. Peaceful, heavenly, and etherial. Planetary ether.
Vintage envelopes encased in encaustic wax. 50 letters from 100 years ago. Stories, tales, chronicles, history, gossip, speculation, fabrication, confessions, betrayals, truths, and loves. The lost and fading novella.
Wall sculpture, found wood, cast plaster, and acrylic paint. Spines, vessels, and life lines. Journey and pathway connecting with nature.
Mystical insects, born, caterpillar, cocoon, resurrection, and adopting natural camouflage to blend into surroundings of leaves, lichen, bark, and rock. Nature’s couture. Dappled earth toned capes, geometric symmetry in evening wear, sipping nectar in feathered antennae, and attraction to the celestial light.
These are photographs with encaustic wax paired with carved and torched wood. Aerial views of desert terrain, abstract, geometric, and monotone. Randomly cultivated landscape – marks on the planet surface. Followed by destruction, poison, and depletion – charring the jeweled veneer.
GLACIER series – photograph with encaustic wax. Cross sections of prehistoric glaciers. Mineral sediments in water, layered, frozen in time. Icebergs everlasting in the arctic cold. Blues to browns. Global thermal winds cross the ice field. Impending climate crisis.
These are carved wooden panels, torched, with encaustic wax inlay. Twilight in the woods. Sky and sunlight vanishing, horizontal rays through the dense woodland. Day creatures settle, as the nocturnal emerge. Silhouettes diminish on the horizon as daylight fades, gracefully welcoming the luminescent moon through drifting clouds.
Poetry carved in the rings of trees. Stories told, journeys documented, historic cycles captured in a lifetime. Good years, bad years, prosperity and despair. Embracing the destination. Bombarded with planetary disaster, nature’s fight for preservation, balance, beauty, and survival prevail.