The Alchemy Scrolls are now available in a smaller size and ready to hang. They are 17 inches wide and 36 inches tall, with wood slats at top and bottom and a chain for hanging. Each one is $200 with a 10% discount if you order all 5 of the Transformation of Earth series. Here is what one of them looks like hanging at Black Lab. Contact the artist if you are interested.
Now that “Jewels: Blue-Green Girl, Boat” is finished, Jewels is complete. There are twelve diptychs in this collection, one for each major stop on the color wheel. As a visitor to the studio said, “It’s rainbow!” Each panel in a two-panel set has a small and concentrated instance of the subject color, and for a final touch I hand paint gloss medium on this color to add punch. These are wee pieces, each panel is 4 inches square and about 1.5 inches deep, with the sides painted in a shade of the featured hue. Each image rhymes with its partner, and not just because of the color. I like to play with categories here, as elsewhere, especially “natural” and “human-made.” In “Blue-Green,” “Girl” is sitting in a tree, and “Boat” is on water; which is more natural? I am also thinking about places: “Girl” is in Baltimore and “Boat” is in Venice, both places in various kinds of crisis. As another visitor said the other day, “Interesting. You look at them and they’re completely different, but they’re not!”
I invite you to look at these new works: the Fringe Series. There are four multi-medium variation prints in this limited edition (no more than 5)—one for each season in the year. Each thread in the fringe continues the color from the photographic image. The image is printed on canvas and then perforated to allow for the thread to be attached. It looks like the color is spilling out of the image. Each image has portions which are blurred because of motion or the function of the camera lens, so there are paint-like streaks and pointillist spots, all as a product of the camera. I pull indistinct elements from the images and make them concrete by attaching wires or crystals to the threads. These definite elements rhyme with the indefinite parts in the image.
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