Mixed Media on Paper
Select the image to enlarge it, for the description and dimensions. All work is available unless marked as SOLD in the description.
Works in this gallery are created on paper and some come from three bodies of work including two earlier series, Look Homeward: Flashbulb Memories (2019) and Shadowland (2020). These works pair full color original digital photographs with a variety of media including inks, waterborne enamel, acrylic paint, wax pastels, and flashe emulsion paint.
Beginning with Cradle below, Look Homeward investigates the powerful connection between place, emotion and memory. I left my Butler County home more than 40 years ago; this work considers the potent connections related to home as an emotional and meaning-laden construct captured as “flashbulb memories.” “Flashbulb memories” occur when an event is emotionally significant. The works in Shadowland, beginning with Dawn To Break below, are metaphors for a place of shadow, that indeterminate borderland between places or states, between indecision and compromise—the “gray area” that is so much a part of our world. This body of work was born in response to an invitation to participate in a social experiment and exhibition by artist and curator Jeffrey Cortland Jones called Grey/Gray Matter. Artists were asked to take an existing postcard and cover the front a monochrome gray. These small mixed media pieces are slow work. Contemplation rewards the viewer with singular meaningful visual statements of altered, resonant spaces illuminating the complex relationship between place, emotion and memory.
