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Tree of living things
This body of work is based on my collection of evolutionary and Buddhist cosmological charts. I am interested by the astounding ways these charts compress
information and their use of both organic and geometric forms.
The act
of painting, the scale and slight irregularity of each panel, the gesso I make —
are all linked for me. The way forms are built out of the paint has a logic that
cascades out of each previous decision. This makes painting a slow procedure; I
let the brush strokes accumulate like coral reefs, anchored to their thematic
starting points but growing organically out of a struggle with intervening ideas.
I relate
this way of working to how we are in the world we continually construct our
physical and social selves.
encaustic, oil
and enamel on panel 25” x 30"