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72” X 48'“
Ink, Acrylic, on Wood Panel
2022

Handmade Cradled Wood Panel from Birch, Archivally sealed and varnished, Ready to hang. Included in price is delivery and installation.

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“Let me sing to you now about how people turn into other things.” - Ovid

A work in the continuing series entitled Eternal Recurrence. The minutiae of handwritten words weave together to form the drawn shape, shadow, and light of figures alternately emerging and submerging from abstracted painted flora and foliage. This work takes its cue from Ovid, "Let me sing to you now about how people turn into other things," basing its narrative and direction from the myth of Daphne, an extrapolation of its foray into the nature of transformation, and the transformation of nature through cycle and echo and recurrence. This loose interpretation of the myth binds together these ideas with a thread of deep connection to the surrounding world and the ever daunting effects of a changing climate. The narrative encoded into the black and white drawn sections of the figures are built from a long text that acts like a conversation with the image in impressionistic metaphor written by the artist and repeated throughout the piece. Certain flights of automatic writing embellish the repetition from time to time.