Secret Garden
Secret Garden marks the beginning of working intentionally with my foreground floating in white space. I was intimidated and wanted to let go of prior ideas of working from the ground forward. I turned off the lights and made all my initial marks in silver point to baroque music. I chose that because of its windings, curls and force and also because I had been responding to baroque visuals in previous work; it was a natural connection. These works more than any I had made before seemed so connected to my internal spaces, the things I hold private. This is why I titled the series as such. I love that story by Frances Hodgson Burnett and the way it resonates with me.
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a big wheel… a big wheel or a hoppity hop. A big wheel
8 x 6 x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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hooked, if one string could pull me, where would it attach
16” x 20” x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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it was something about another sighting; was it Mary on the porcelain pitcher
9” x 12” x 2”, silver point, graphite and oil on panel, 2011
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16 x 20 x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
20” x 16” x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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take your chance, ride the pony--only one side bucks
24” x 18” x 2”, silver point, gouache, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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it has been proven that having a stirrup doesn’t mean you have a horse
16 x 20 x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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each morning the super hero eats outside my kitchen window disguised as a bird
14” x 11” x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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suspended unsleep satellite in the undreaming of bullets and fear
33” x 27” x 2”, silver point, gouache, acrylic ink, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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a violent disaster, a corpse upright, empty body…Hijikata remembered
16” x 12” x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011
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that winter, a wicked rascal ever violent now, again, who’s spring
12 x 9 x 2”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011