Fire and Ice, 2012, (above and below) 42" x 104" 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. 

Disappear 2009 (below), 78" x 80," 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.