Mixed Media Collage
Mixed media collage with acrylic, pastel, pencil, pen
Taking Flight
Liberty Arts Gallery, Yreka, CA, 2018
Taking Flight, blue mirror plastic, clear plastic, LED lights, paint, feathers, Liberty Arts Gallery, 2018
Tape Drawings
Tape Drawings, ink on paper, drawn by tape "machine", 24" x 30"
The gentle swaying of suspended, organic shapes in Tape Drawings provides an initial kinesthetic awareness felt deeply in the viewer’s body. These “machines” are anything but machine-like. They are made of clear packaging tape, slowly and carefully pieced together, like knitting or basket weaving, age-old traditions attributed to the female. The tape is manipulated into an elongated teardrop form. I suspend multiples of these from the ceiling on swivel hooks. The forms sway in response to air currents initiated by the viewers’ movements. Ink refills are inserted into the bulbous ends and paper rectangles are placed beneath. Light flickers from the transparent forms as they gyrate, like performance artists, creating repetitive, linear elements that over time form perfect, circular drawings. This process makes visible the invisible: air, one of Aristotle’s four basic elements. The Tape Drawings are artifacts of this collaborative performance between viewer and air molecules, providing evidence of the collective human presence in the room.
Life Drawings
