Lightworks
Encaustic Monotypes with Back-Lighting
Disappear, 2009, 78 x 80 in, Encaustic with fluorescent lights
Disappear consists of twelve layered encaustic monotypes with backlighting, inspired by an airplane flight over the Louisiana wetlands' lace-like structure of land and water with glinting sunlight. Louisiana loses a football field of land every hour, caused by sea-level rise, hurricanes, the oil disaster in the Gulf, and canals dug by the oil industry. The fragility of the cut paper speaks to the fragility of all of nature and the need to care for it. These encaustic images are pierced, cut, and layered. The lighting produces shadows, and with backlighting, the clear wax areas are bright and translucent, while the unprinted with encaustic appear darker.
Disappear, 78 x 80 in, Encaustic monotypes with fluorescent lights
Disappear (detail), 78 x 80 in, Encaustic monotypes with fluorescent lights
Disappear (detail), 78 x 80 in, Encaustic monotypes with fluorescent lights
Disappear, 78 x 80 in, Encaustic monotypes with fluorescent lights
Fire and Ice, 2012, 42 x 104 in, Layered encaustic monotypes
Fire and Ice reflects my concerns about the environment and climate change, particularly in the hot, dry Southwest. The piece consists of eight free-hanging wax prints in two layers lit from behind. The translucent wax patterns merge, blend, and recede in mystery.
Fire and Ice, detail, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
Fire and Ice, 42 x 104 in, Layered encaustic monotypes, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
Fire and Ice, detail, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston
Water At My Door (2014), 96 x 43 in
Water At My Door is a large-scale encaustic work on paper inspired by my childhood memories and my concerns about our rapidly changing natural world. The piece delves into the deep waters of the psyche. Growing up on the Gulf of Mexico meant being attuned to the weather's turbulent incursions in our lives. Having survived hurricanes and floods, the unpredictable chaos of nature is always with me. The video's light and movement relate to metaphorical passages through the waters of art and life.
Connecting Dots #124, with ambient light, 40 x 26 in, encaustic. Private collection, US.
Connecting Dots #124, with back-lighting, 40 x 26 in, encaustic. Private collection, US.
Connecting Dots #124, 20 x 16 in. Private collection, US.
Connecting Dots Fractal & Flora #1, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots Fractal & Flora #3, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots Fractal & Flora #4, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots Fractal & Flora, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots Scatter II, 12 x 27 in. Private collection, US.
Connecting Dots Scatter (detail), 18 x 20 in
Connecting Dots #108, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots #140, 40 x 26 in, Encaustic monotype in lightbox
Connecting Dots #107, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots #61, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots #83, 40 x 26 in
Connecting Dots #74, 18 x 18 in
Blue Dots, 20 x 20 in. Private collection, US.
Connect the Dots #136
Connecting Dots, Installation at R&F Gallery
My Universe, Park City Utah
My Universe, detail, Park City Utah
Palm, private collection, US, and Field (diptych), 42 x 40 in, Encaustic with fluorescent lights
Dots, 3rd National Encaustic Conference
Dots, Turchin Center for the Arts
Palm and Field, ART Santa Fe Fair