INFORMAL KAHLO

I love the sketchy informality and private quality of Frida Kahlo's diary, now published and available for purchase as a work of art/anthropology.

Words, images, layers, script. This seemingly intuitive process. This all relates to my process/ interests.

BLUE-GREEN ALOE

Big changes in color have made this work much more interesting I think. Working to get away from my primary color scheme with this bright blue-green. Acrylic, Gouache & ink.

ADJUSTMENTS

Tinkering with small adjustments in these three,  gold writing, gold power and red text, in that order.

NOSTALGIA

Artist’s Statement revised.

My images are personal reflections, drawn impulsively like a nervous tick. Figures, objects, and strings of text all speak to existential quandaries---What does any of this mean and how should I feel about it? My process is additive and generally focused on observation, layering, obscuring and re-finding line. Through these steps, I work to make the subjects uniquely mine.

In this most recent series, I've created a set of objects as a way to think about nostalgia: the feeling of rediscovering an intense long-lost feeling, like finding a box of old journals inan attic. As soon as you recognize them, even before you read the first lines, you are already pulled in. I'm interested in this emotional deja vu, its way of assigning value to the past, because of it's relationship to what it means to be a person.

GLAZE

Glazing semi translucent layers of acrylic over work to create cohesiveness and complicate color appeals. However, in this experiment, I realized my ink is not water soluble, and so after my smearing, I ended up here. 

PRIMARY PATTERN

Jasper John, Map, 1961

Aaron Siskind, New York, 1951

LAYERS

Layers of gouache and Ink over acrylic. I wonder if the layers underneath inform the later piece.