1992 - ongoing

Contemplative, Process-based Studio Work

 

2021 - ongoing

STUDIO: A Vocabulary for the Conjurings

Collaborations with homemade, homegrown natural inks on muslin.

Current studio work arising from practicing the permacultural tenet of protracted thoughtful observation, and inspired by ancient healing modalities of embedding cloth and clothing with plant medicine through a complex process of dyeing. I’ve spent the past four summers cultivating a fiber and dye garden from which I’ve harvested a palette of yellows, reds, and blues, and of course I’m perfecting browns. These, in combination with abundant native plants and mushrooms; invasive plants, and mineral mordants form the basis of my mark-making materials.

These paintings are meditations on living closely with the land and other creatures; by spiritual and psychological practices; mythological and cosmological guidance; and particularly by my experience with idiopathic health diagnoses in the wake of Covid and the work of healing.

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2017 - 2019

STUDIO: Landlooker Mysteries

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Just listening as the mysteries emerge through the felled trees from whence these stump prints were taken. 

relief print with screenprints on kozo paper
sizes variable

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2023 - ongoing.

Becoming the Spider.

Weaving Experiments in organic cotton and wool dyed with nearby plants and mushrooms. 

Statement coming soon

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2015-2016 

Rudimentary Industry

Research for and beyond The Printmakers Left publication The Hinterlands. 

Attempting a rudimentary understanding of industrial workings, beginning with the book, A Rudimentary Understanding of Industry, Taking Measurements in 2015, and expanding into ideas of aesthetic remediation (a term I learned at the tabasco factory in Louisiana) and new landfill aggregates. 

The  collages overlap images found on via google search of factory sites that are on the PERI Toxic 100 with images of nature from the Life Books - and are playful proposals for aesthetic remediation. 

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