Secret Garden/2011

  • the centipede crawls lightning quick, the caterpillar’s slow and easy, silly little caterpillar

    the centipede crawls lightning quick, the caterpillar’s slow and easy, silly little caterpillar

    8” x 10”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011 (private collection)

  • little one giggling and laughing making her self understood in a kangaroo paradise

    little one giggling and laughing making her self understood in a kangaroo paradise

    12" x 9", silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011 (private collection)

  • I want to be welcome in your water balloon playground (hammer, anvil, stirrup)

    I want to be welcome in your water balloon playground (hammer, anvil, stirrup)

    16” x 20”, silver point, watercolor texture medium, walnut ink, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011.(A part of the Ossuary Project by Laurie Beth Clark)

  • Dear Theodor, the star-off-machine has actually met with some success; they're still making thneeds

    Dear Theodor, the star-off-machine has actually met with some success; they're still making thneeds

    24” x 30” , silver point, graphite, acrylic ink, gouache, and oil on panel, 2011 (private collection)

  • a secret garden paradise in limited editions, not for the weak at heart, répondez s'il vous

    a secret garden paradise in limited editions, not for the weak at heart, répondez s'il vous

    8” x 10”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011 (private collection)

  • skate through the ice, twice olivia bacon

    skate through the ice, twice olivia bacon

    20” x 16”, silver point, paper, gouache, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011 (private collection)

  • no rush, but please don’t take too long, blu fairie

    no rush, but please don’t take too long, blu fairie

    8” x 10”, silver point, acrylic ink, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011 (private collection)

  • a big wheel… a big wheel or a hoppity hop. A big wheel

    a big wheel… a big wheel or a hoppity hop. A big wheel

    8" x 6", silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011.(private collection)

  • hooked, if one string could pull me, where would it attach

    hooked, if one string could pull me, where would it attach

    16” x 20”, silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011. (private collection)

  • it was something about another sighting; was it Mary on the porcelain pitcher

    it was something about another sighting; was it Mary on the porcelain pitcher

    9” x 12”, silver point, graphite and oil on panel, 2011

  • take your chance, ride the pony--only one side bucks

    take your chance, ride the pony--only one side bucks

    24” x 18”, silver point, gouache, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011

  • it has been proven that having a stirrup doesn’t mean you have a horse

    it has been proven that having a stirrup doesn’t mean you have a horse

    16" x 20", silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011

  • each morning the super hero eats outside my kitchen window disguised as a bird

    each morning the super hero eats outside my kitchen window disguised as a bird

    14” x 11", silver point, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011

  • suspended unsleep satellite in the undreaming of bullets and fear

    suspended unsleep satellite in the undreaming of bullets and fear

    33” x 27”, silver point, gouache, acrylic ink, graphite, and oil on panel, 2011

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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.