Boxed:Shift
Boxed:Shift emerged as a series in 2020 when I moved to a high-urban shelter between high rise buildings - during a pandemic. Boxed:Shift took shape in response to a new environment of geometric forms and a palette reflecting the light of water and sky over San Francisco Bay, and our collective feeling of locked-in and looking out as we adapted and shifted to a changed world.
Juxtaposing color is what I do; introducing geometric forms and changing my palette is a shift. Painting clean-edged lines free-hand has been a pivot in process that echoes my pandemic experience: control outside of the lines, freedom within them.
Edge
Edge draws on my fascination with the point at which the edges of natural features meet another plane — land, water, sky, the intersection where one becomes another. They imagine the geological and biological processes shaping landscape over millennia and taking place beneath our feet - from the evolution of soil and life on the planet, to the forces of deposition, erosion, faulting and uplift creating land forms.
Still Here
Still Here honors trees in their fundamental beauty: limbs bare, trunks exposed. Each is an exploration and an homage, incorporating text and symbols to embody the history and meaning of a life. Working from photographs, memory and an attachment to each subject, these are portraits of individuals in later stages of life and after death. Still Here refers to their stillness, and to their lasting presence as impression or memory.