Case Files
~ Processing & Documenting the days of the week - any week - during this time, my time, our time.
Great Ideas Going Nowhere
hiding - fighting - relinquishing fears
I’ll show you the language when it’s ready
but what if I told you that I was here first?
or that not one bit of you will be gone…
I’ll show you the language when it’s ready
not one bit of you will be gone…
but what if I told you that I was here first?
22 x 30 x 2.5 hand painted acrylic on hot press watercolor paper collaged onto an aluminum substrate with integrated backing system. mounted on birch panel
Conundrums of Expanding Compression
The two sides of one coin - reconciling, remembering and reminding - those moments when ugliness and negativity gave rise to profound beauty, when despair and anxiety gave way to serenity.
Alarming Wonder
Grasping Absence
Arresting Love
Wearing Calm
22 x 30 x 2.5 (mounted) hand painted acrylic on hot press watercolor paper collaged onto an aluminum substrate with integrated backing system
4 Stages of Grief in Haiku
These works began as a series of 4 haiku poems written during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. I found the structured yet creative process of writing, cutting and layering concisely and rhythmically so healing as we tried to come to terms with social distancing, social media induced anxiety and social unrest; fear and anger, loneliness and despair and finally, a new kind of unnerving but potentially beautiful freedom.
Break
Why are you so mad?
I think it’s time to shut up -
Let’s stop making noise.
Lull
Why are you so sad?
Because it’s harder to cope
in a sleepless state.
Pause
Why are you so tired?
Did you labor too hard to
drown fears in your sweat?
Rest
Why are you so calm?
It’s the witching hour when brave
creatures leave their nests.
