Nest is about containment and memory. A portrait without a body.
The work grew in part from seeing the quilts of Gee’s Bend at the Whitney in 2002. Several were made from the worn clothing of deceased friends and relatives - fabrics retaining the physical memory of a person.
In Nest, paint replaces fabric. Color and structure become more controlled and idealized. A reconstruction of home as solidity, safety, and harmony. Everything in its place. A perfection that can only exist in thought.
At the center is what is contained - intimacy.
Nest is about containment and memory. A portrait without a body.
The work grew in part from seeing the quilts of Gee’s Bend at the Whitney in 2002. Several were made from the worn clothing of deceased friends and relatives - fabrics retaining the physical memory of a person.
In Nest, paint replaces fabric. Color and structure become more controlled and idealized. A reconstruction of home as solidity, safety, and harmony. Everything in its place. A perfection that can only exist in thought.
At the center is what is contained - intimacy.
Nest is about containment and memory. A portrait without a body.
he work grew in part from seeing the quilts of Gee’s Bend at the Whitney in 2002. Several were made from the worn clothing of deceased friends and relatives - fabrics retaining the physical memory of a person.
In Nest, paint replaces fabric. Color and structure become more controlled and idealized.
A reconstruction of home as solidity, safety, and harmony. Everything in its place. A perfection that can only exist in thought.
At the center is what is contained - intimacy.
98.6°F is about release to nothingness.
The central color is neutral — neither warm nor cool. Establishing the body as the measure: the point from which warmth and coolness are perceived. At the edges, shallow breaths of warm and cool remain.
The structure is still faintly present: a base, a ground, a connection to this life. The stillness between inhale and exhale. The body before it cools.
A meditation on release and nothingness.
98.6°F is about release to nothingness.
The central color is neutral — neither warm nor cool. Establishing the body as the measure: the point from which warmth and coolness are perceived. At the edges, shallow breaths of warm and cool remain.
The structure is still faintly present: a base, a ground, a connection to this life. The stillness between inhale and exhale. The body before it cools.
A meditation on release and nothingness.
Milk. A reference to milky white tints but also to the fragility and perseverance of life. Each square may represent a thought, a pleasant moment of time. An interior with many histories written over with time. The light of a Vermeer entering from the left. There is a top horizon line that could represent time, or the passing of light into shadow. As with all my works, it is mostly intuitive. This one has less of an "about" narrative and is simply about feeling.
Milk. A reference to milky white tints but also to the fragility and perseverance of life. Each square may represent a thought, a pleasant moment of time. An interior with many histories written over with time. The light of a Vermeer entering from the left. There is a top horizon line that could represent time, or the passing of light into shadow. As with all my works, it is mostly intuitive. This one has less of an "about" narrative and is simply about feeling.
Habeas Corpus. (You have the body) An intuitive work that I haven't yet fully fleshed out. It is in reference to years of dealing with a housing legal system. The process, the rules, the GAME. The lack of fluidity filled with stops or punctuation. Often, life changing consequences for an individual in contrast to the detachment & mundanity of a daily system. A machine. AI, mentioned… "Instead of clarity of information, there is obscurity". In this sense the square doesn't represent digital, but stasis or a game board. Here as in my other works, I am painting thought. The artist Robert Natkin collected old chess boards. He said he liked the wear on the surface. That resonated & has stayed with me.
Habeas Corpus. (You have the body) An intuitive work that I haven't yet fully fleshed out. It is in reference to years of dealing with a housing legal system. The process, the rules, the GAME. The lack of fluidity filled with stops or punctuation. Often, life changing consequences for an individual in contrast to the detachment & mundanity of a daily system. A machine. AI, mentioned… "Instead of clarity of information, there is obscurity". In this sense the square doesn't represent digital, but stasis or a game board. Here as in my other works, I am painting thought. The artist Robert Natkin collected old chess boards. He said he liked the wear on the surface. That resonated & has stayed with me.
