I think I need to paint and soon. I promised that I would do something wild and free today, but this doesn’t really live up to that promise. The idea to do something wild and free came from a conversation about children’s art, and how they approach the page without fear or trepidation. But today was a day full of weighty grown-up responsibilities and phone-calls. Not so wild, not so free. The inspiration is a photo of Beryl Birch from her book “Power Yoga,” which is really all about Ashtanga yoga. I begin to appreciate the simple lines of Ustrasana.
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My work deals with themes of human and nonhuman intelligence, and what it means to return home when the nature of home itself is nebulous and undefined. As an interdisciplinary artist with homebases in painting and printmaking, I explore the interstitial spaces between these and other media, relishing the borderlands–the slippage between idea and medium. Lens based ways of looking interact with a fierce love of materiality that echoes the earth itself, and the ways in which humanity interacts with the homeostatic systems that comprise Gaia, the living earth.
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Lovely sketch – you have captured the stretch and ease of the pose