Pod/Path + Cell series
The Pod/Path body of work was produced from 2005 to 2008. Impasto grounds and by employing the visceral qualities of paint, this work draws analogies between plant and human life systems and recognizes the close connections within these systems. (first 5 images) In both series, gestural marks in the paint grounds are built up, covered, and exposed to create a materially and visually rich surface. The work addresses the depth of information in the natural world that is increasingly being lost or diminished due to unsustainable exploitation and extraction. These bodies of work overlapped in production from 2005 to 2the Pod/Path body of work was created from 2005 to 2008. Impasto grounds metaphorically represent the ground or body of the earth itself. Gestural marks and shapes appear in the grounds of the picture plane. I use these marks as evocations of path and/or pod. Path: mapping waterways, migration ways, pathways, movement, and individual, communal, or historical networks. Pod: seeds, cells, body, groupings, coverings, internal elements, and genetic networks. I approached building each work as a way of acknowledging more-than-human intelligence, specifically an ancestral, generational knowledge of animals and the genetic adaptations of plants within their habitats.
The Cell series, produced from 2007 to 2010, was engaged with the botanical and the body. By using abstract imagery of cell structures, plant and body forms, and by employing the visceral qualities of paint, this work presents analogies between plant and human life systems and recognizes the close associations within these systems.
In these series, gestural marks in the paint grounds are built up, covered and exposed to create a materially and visually rich surface. The work addresses the depth of information in the natural world that is becoming ever more lost or diminished as a result of unsustainable exploitation, extraction and climate change
These series of work overlapped in production from 2005 to 2008.
Embodied Presence exhibition essay - 2 person exhibition which included my work from the Pod/Path series