Special Forms of Rescue
My background in printmaking led to a love of paper and its tactile qualities. In recent work, drawing media and paint are combined with torn paper and torn fragments of photographs of clouds. This work is about navigating in unpredictable, uncertain environments. The figures are made of clouds and they exist in a landscape of clouds. I use clouds for the paradoxes they hold. These seemingly solid, palpable forms are neither solid nor palpable. They are of the air but made of water, existing in a state of transitoriness. The shifting forms of clouds as they mass, break apart and reform are a constant reminder that stability is ephemeral and perhaps an illusion, yet the figures find ways to adjust.
January 2025