Deep Time & Terrain
… I had never felt it before, the sense that we were walking on a surface.”
-- Karl Ove Knausgaard, MY STRUGGLE; Book 3
DEEP TIME
Images 1-5
I now find myself under surface of the sea, in the deep. And from the deep I wander among the mountains, valleys, and canyons of the ocean floor. My palette has darkened, as has the mood reflecting the ecological dangers we face. Melting glaciers and warming seas have affected the sea floor itself. My imagery is drawn from maps of the ocean floor plotted in the 1950s and 1960s by geologist Marie Tharp. I scan sections, alter them in Photoshop, print them digitally, then cut and reassemble the fragments with added paint, to form an imagined dimensional underwater topography. The depth and texture in these works are both illusion and actual. Layers are attached with magnets, reflecting the magnetic energy of the earth’s tectonic plates
TERRAIN
Images 6-26
The movement of the earth’s surface is a source of inspiration and imagery for the last decade. Iexplore anthropogenic climate change and its effect on land and water: rising seas, flooding shifting coast lines and volatile geothermal terrains. My abstract landscapes refer to inundation in Boston, Cape Cod, the Eastern seacoast, and the Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland (Cauldron 1 -3 and GUNNUHIVER'S GHOST). MY palette includes umbers, ochers, crimson, and sienna with occasional blues and grays. Maps, photographs, and charts are turned into sculptural collages, allowing us to imagine ourselves within a dimensional landscape. “To inhabit the world –or an artwork -- is an important way of understanding it.”
Images 1-5
I now find myself under surface of the sea, in the deep. And from the deep I wander among the mountains, valleys, and canyons of the ocean floor. My palette has darkened, as has the mood reflecting the ecological dangers we face. Melting glaciers and warming seas have affected the sea floor itself. My imagery is drawn from maps of the ocean floor plotted in the 1950s and 1960s by geologist Marie Tharp. I scan sections, alter them in Photoshop, print them digitally, then cut and reassemble the fragments with added paint, to form an imagined dimensional underwater topography. The depth and texture in these works are both illusion and actual. Layers are attached with magnets, reflecting the magnetic energy of the earth’s tectonic plates
TERRAIN
Images 6-26
The movement of the earth’s surface is a source of inspiration and imagery for the last decade. Iexplore anthropogenic climate change and its effect on land and water: rising seas, flooding shifting coast lines and volatile geothermal terrains. My abstract landscapes refer to inundation in Boston, Cape Cod, the Eastern seacoast, and the Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland (Cauldron 1 -3 and GUNNUHIVER'S GHOST). MY palette includes umbers, ochers, crimson, and sienna with occasional blues and grays. Maps, photographs, and charts are turned into sculptural collages, allowing us to imagine ourselves within a dimensional landscape. “To inhabit the world –or an artwork -- is an important way of understanding it.”