2022

Starting off 2022 with some light studies. These were probably done with a set of these cheap artist loft acrylics that come in a thousand tiny tubes and were painted on those plasticky pre-gessoed panels. I still find them absolutely delightful. I was just so excited to paint, and I did them all in a frenzy, one after the other.

These are three large scale drawings done with pastel over acrylic. I think they were all over 4 feet, maybe over 5 in height. Unfortunately they weren't ever properly displayed or stored so have now been lost.

Here are two works in the same series, both acrylic on canvas. They explore some somatic experiences of mine.

Here are two sister pieces that are supposed to follow cat with no stomach, but were a little too far removed temporally to work together as a trio. In order they are The Third Muse and Floating Hearte. The latter is large scale as well, I think it's over 4' but I have an unfortunate habit of just ripping off whatever size paper feels right and starting to paint, so I don't know the exact size. Here is a picture of me next to it for reference.

This was an installation I did for a drawing class. They are batik banners decorated with handmade tassels and bamboo chimes. They were strung around a family of large poplars that are living in a forgotten area between roads and developed land. I called them "protection sigils" as they were intended to mark the importance of the area.

To critique this I had to lead the class over a creek and into the woods, which is what I did almost every day to get to class, so i didn't think It would be that much of an excursion. My peers let me know otherwise as they stumbled through the creek in wet shoes and very nearly through the thick patch of poison ivy that I had unknowingly installed my art in. I'm grateful my professor's shoes dried before our group reception that afternoon. It was not the first time she had to change the syllabus because of me. She received one of the banners as compensation, although I was planning on giving her one anyways. I was criticized for lack of accessibility.

we finish off with two ink paintings, which were actually done at the beginning of the year. The first is an imagining of a microscopic landscape, while the latter is a study of a Hiro Isono painting.