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🐇📖 'Everwonderland
🐇📖 'Everwonderland
'Everwonderland is a personal series exploring coming-of-age moments through the lens of two famous stories, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. Alice, Peter, the many characters, and elements of their stories have taken on lives of their own in popular culture, reimagined in a plethora of adaptations. Unsurprisingly for a series of surrealist work, my inspiration initially came from a lengthy, complicated dream that left me scrambling for a notebook after I woke up, scribbling down as much as I could before the details could leave me. Since then, using painting, drawing, and printmaking, I have continued to explore experiences many of have, trying to understand a world that's simultaneously non-sensical, cruel, amazing, and wonderful and the milestones that especially mark growing up, or trying with all my might to avoid ever doing so.
The visual vocabulary in these pieces relies on a few elements and principles in particular. As a friend good-naturedly said my "use of color is about as subtle as a freight train." In this series, I have leaned in on my color palette riot even harder, creating a feeling of intensity and novelty. These compositions tend to be crowded, inviting viewers to linger and find hidden details, and invoking how I often feel, barely containing a whirlwind of observations and ideas that can barely be explained while the pressure of the clock ticking by breathes down my neck.
Additional artwork documentation coming soon.
Follow the White Rabbit to the Second Star on the Right
Chalk pastels on black paper (unknown brand) 23 x 17.5 inchesSeptember 2021Available for purchase, printed on a variety of items or materials via my RedBubble.Follow the White Rabbit to the Second Star on the Right
To set the scene in the night sky, and make the iconic white rabbit "pop," I chose to work on black paper. I am particularly pleased with the motion expressed by the different poses of the rabbit, and the borderline alien feel of the fairies scattered through the piece.
Faith? Trust? Take Instructions at Fae-Value
Mixed media on mixed media paper. Materials include: India ink, CultureHustle's Black 3.0, collaged paper raised on paper "springs", Prismacolor pencils, watercolor paint, and oil pastels16 x 20 inchesOctober 2023Faith? Trust? Take Instructions at Fae-Value
This process piece involved collecting many inspiration images, including from the AI image creating program Wonder, numbering the images, and then rolling dice to determine which image I started with first (the mushrooms in this case). For part two, I rolled again, and incorporated the AI image of the green fairy merged with a teapot, scraping away parts of the mushroom drawing. Finally, for the last image, I incorporated the tessellating rabbits.
I enjoy how leaving a large part of the artwork up to chance mimics dream imagery, allowing me the chance to connect with serendipity and perhaps the collective unconscious to make a unified composition. Additionally, it gives the piece as a whole a slightly uncanny feeling, increased by including the errors that AI image generators are still making.
AI "artwork" poses many questions about creation, bias, the role of "the artist" in society. Debates on how to use AI in the coming decades will continue to force humans to confront questions previously reserved for fantasy and sci-fi. While we try to reacon with all that is to come, I find myself questioning when I see images what is real and what isn't. The old advice on how to spot fairies trying to trick humans by disguising themselves is surprisingly reliable; count fingers, teeth, knuckles, joints and remember too good to be true usually is.
Shadow Work
Acrylic paint on canvas board 16 x 20 inchesOctober 2021Shadow Work
When you look back, which version of yourself did you decide to embrace? “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.” - Carl Jung
🌐🖥️ World Wide Wonderland
🌐🖥️ World Wide Wonderland
Artist's statement and additional artwork documentation coming soon.
Motherboard
Motherboard
2006Chalk pastels and charcoal on gray 30x40 inch matboard (digital touch-ups to remove glare from frame)
Internet Security
Internet Security
2005Chalk and charcoal on black 30x40 inch matboard (digital touch-ups to remove glare from frame)
🖼️ Misc. Printmaking & Mixed Media
🖼️ Misc. Printmaking & Mixed Media
Life Sets
Life Sets
2006Lithograph print
Control and Loss
Control and Loss
2006Linoleum block print
Hey Girl...
Start a Commotion
Get Your Body in Motion
Hey Girl...
Start a Commotion
Get Your Body in Motion
2006monotype triptychWill be on display and available for sale this fall (2024) at Lemon Tree Gallery in Cape Charles, VA.
✏️ Misc. Drawings
✏️ Misc. Drawings
"Die slowly" is a weird turn of phrase coined by and used amongst a particular group of my friends. We tend to say it while saying goodbyes. It's meant to simultaneously remind one another that we won't live forever, but we are loved and have people who want us to be around as long as possible. In short, it's a morbid, "I love you, take care!"
Well Wishes for Compost in Training
Well Wishes for Compost in Training
Eve Study
Eve Study
2008Ink on 8x10 bristol board
Untitled figure study
Untitled figure study
2006Graphite on large paper
Untitled figure study
Untitled figure study
2006Charcoal on large paper
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