UPRIGHT AND ASSYMETRICAL
2021-Present
The goal of this work was to use imagination and creativity as María Zambrano wrote, "to remove ourselves from the overwhelming influence of facts, from the terrifying form of the immediate." The pandemic has been a time to look at where we take refuge and what we create during hard times. I took refuge in creative work, building a fantastic garden. I started with the basic units, fictional plants. I built plants made of vines, stems, and twigs, new plants, first sketching them and then making them grow.
Images 1, 3, 5, 7, 9: Assemble print series (in brown), 16 x 20”
etching, embroidery, handmade flax paper, walnut ink, graphite, and colored pencil on mulberry paper
Images 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11: Furnish print series (in green), 16 x 20”
etching, embroidery, gouache, collage
Image 12: Fill the Rooms, artist’s book, 12 x 9” closed
handmade abaca, gouache, embroidery, collage
Image 13: Fill the Rooms, detail
Image 14: Fill the Rooms, in book stand
Image 15: While Reason Slept, diptych, 30 x 40”
screenprint on cotton/flax paper
Image 16: Nothing Was Daily, diptych, 30 x 40”
Image 17: Reading Alcove
Handmade oak chair and found table with books that inspired this body of work. Pinned to the wall, early sketches and materials tests.