"The Darndest Thing"
Size: 13" x 17 3/4" Price: $375
This conversation diptich (along with "I'll Be") was my first attempt at creating a more complex, overlayed image accomplished with two separate wax and dye sequences. The imagery is cross-cultural with the couple (photographed at a music festival sitting in lawn chairs) distinctly American and the image from Chinese ancestor houses (actually from Penang, Malaysia) used as the "story" overlay.
"I'll Be"
Size: 13" x 17 3/4" Price: $375
This conversation diptich (along with "I'll Be") was my first attempt at creating a more complex, overlayed image accomplished with two separate wax and dye sequences. The imagery is cross-cultural with the couple (photographed at a music festival sitting in lawn chairs) distinctly American and the image from Chinese ancestor houses (actually from Penang, Malaysia) used as the "story" overlay.
"Front Back Knit"
Size: 16" x 20" Price: $675
This image came out of a philosophical discussion about duality. The idea of attempting to find a reconciliation between the "two" and the "one" spurred me on to find a visual analogy to this idea. I wrote a small piece on beauty for our newsletter where I tried to find room for the possibility that one component of beauty may actually be objective in nature. So this image gained strength for me after the fact because I now see it as bringing together the subjective and objective components of beauty. The "knit" pattern comes from my wife's new hobby and seemed an apt metaphor.
"Its Snow Mountain"
Size: 22" x 22" Price: $850
I return to the subject of mountains with this piece, using a title with a pun reference to both the Zen koan that begins; "First there is a mountain..." as well as Magritte's, "This is not a pipe" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe). The sky pattern uses the Pali (Tibetan) script character for "OM" in repetitive pattern.
davlux - September 7, 2009, 4:49 pm