Sightlines
Working large with molten encaustic on the heated encaustic monotype palette enables fluid sweeping gestures that would be impossible with encaustic wax painting, where long stokes would seize up and cool before completion. I developed this printmaking process so that gesture becomes geometry. The structure is achieved by folding the paper and printing across the folds, creating value changes, straight edges, or geometric shapes.
The folding/unfolding highlights elements of unfolding time. As the molten wax cools and my sweeping gestures are embedded within the paper, I recognize the contoured earth, land seen from above, and my continuing uncharted journey. Abstraction, landscape, and map –— my works are all of these.
Most of the works are professionally mounted on Dibond and ready to hang.
Sightlines Triptych (#s VI, IV, V), 37.25 x 60 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Boing! (triptych), 39 x 75 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Sightlines I, 16.25 x 19 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Sightlines II, 16.25 x 19 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Sightlines III, 19 x 16.25 in, Archival Inkjet Print on Aluminum
Sightlines VII (Vertical), 37.25 x 19 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Sightlines VIII (Vertical), 37.25 x 19 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Sightlines IX (Horizontal), 19 x 37.25 in 2015, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Sightlines X, 14 x 18 in, Encaustic on Japanese Paper
Sightlines XI, 19 x 19 in, Encaustic on Japanese Paper
Blue Wave, 20 x 30 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond
Triple Optix, 22 x 23 in, Encaustic Monotype on Paper mounted on Dibond