Variations, Voyage, Sandprints
Variations on Warming Oceans - Images 1-11
Voyage Middle Passage - images 12-24
Unique mixed media digital prints, graphite, pastel, paint
Sandprints - Images 25-30
Archival pigment prints (edition of 6)
Variations on Warming Oceans
Hidden behind these modified digital prints, are maps made by geologist Marie Tharp of the ocean floor of the Atlantic. They are modified by me on my computer in Photoshop and by hand, drawing with graphite, paint, and pastel. Through the layers, one can catch glimpses of the maps below. Although these maps are beautiful in and of themselves, they are evocative. The maps have allowed me to imagine what is happening or has taken place in the terrain below and the sea above. Looking at the seas in the context of human-induced climate change, I refer to the effects of warming waters and increased levels of methane that pose a great danger.
In Voyage I am considering sea migration and the 'middle passage’ : the forced transport of human beings, as cargo, from Africa to North and South America via Europe throughout the 19th century. The effects of this shameful history -- of the enslaved and the enslavers -- are still with us and poison our social climate.
Sandprints a series of archival pigment prints, each is an edition of 6. They are created from photographs of the beaches of Cape Cod.
Voyage Middle Passage - images 12-24
Unique mixed media digital prints, graphite, pastel, paint
Sandprints - Images 25-30
Archival pigment prints (edition of 6)
Variations on Warming Oceans
Hidden behind these modified digital prints, are maps made by geologist Marie Tharp of the ocean floor of the Atlantic. They are modified by me on my computer in Photoshop and by hand, drawing with graphite, paint, and pastel. Through the layers, one can catch glimpses of the maps below. Although these maps are beautiful in and of themselves, they are evocative. The maps have allowed me to imagine what is happening or has taken place in the terrain below and the sea above. Looking at the seas in the context of human-induced climate change, I refer to the effects of warming waters and increased levels of methane that pose a great danger.
In Voyage I am considering sea migration and the 'middle passage’ : the forced transport of human beings, as cargo, from Africa to North and South America via Europe throughout the 19th century. The effects of this shameful history -- of the enslaved and the enslavers -- are still with us and poison our social climate.
Sandprints a series of archival pigment prints, each is an edition of 6. They are created from photographs of the beaches of Cape Cod.