SEA LEGS STATEMENT
Sea Legs explores adaptability in response to an ever-shifting environmental baseline. Admittedly, instead of a formal statement, a better representation of my thinking would be a sketched concept map, erased and rewritten many times over. The precariousness of our environmental future remains an overwhelming tangled web that is not easily solved or explained. Thus, I have not fully reconciled the seemingly disparate concepts and imagery that exist together in this series.
The works share a subtle confusion between presence and absence. It is not clear whether objects are waxing or waning, concave or convex, wilting or blooming, fleeting or persistent. There are structures and grid systems that are slowly eroding, teetering on the edge of being recognizable. Some of the works are specific references, while others stand as metaphors for scarcity and depletion of resources. For example, an aged set of china with dishes long missing or broken, wilted balloons, empty spaces, obscured views, evaporating pools, and the loss of gravity.
This activity is made possible through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council in cooperation with a private foundation.
Night Beach, 11 x 14 inches, inkjet print
Obscured Flowers, 20 x 16 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Obscured Flowers, 20 x 16 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Obscured Flowers, 20 x 16 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Obscured Flowers, 20 x 16 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Cosmos Wallpaper (detail), 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper
Obscured Flowers, 20 x 16 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (wall)
Black Pool, 20 x 24 x 4 inches, Sumi ink & water in stainless steel darkroom tray (floor)
Black Pool, 20 x 24 x 4 inches, Sumi ink & water in stainless steel darkroom tray
Obscured Night Flora, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Obscured Night Flora #2, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Obscured Night Flora #2, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Obscured Night Flora #7, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Obscured Night Flora #6, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Obscured Night Flora #1, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print (foreground)
Cosmos Wallpaper, 40 x 50 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper (background)
Obscured Night Flora #1, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Obscured Night Flora #5, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Obscured Night Flora #4, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Obscured Night Flora #3, 11 x 14 inches, black Sumi ink on inkjet print
Balloon Wallpaper, 36 x 30 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper
Transfusion Bag #3, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
Transfusion Bag #4, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
Transfusion Bag #1, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
Transfusion Bag Triptych, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
Hermit Triptych, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper
Hermit #1, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
Hermit #2, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
Hermit #3, 20 x 16 inches, inkjet print
False Moon (diptych), 16 x 20 inches, inkjet print
False Moon (detail), 16 x 20 inches, inkjet print
False Moon (detail), 16 x 20 inches, inkjet print