Randamnation

27.1.24

Gulf Coast Sojourn - Don't Say She Isn't...

Don't Say She Isn't... 2024

Gulf Coast Sojourn - Estuarine

Estuarine. 2024

This is the first piece I made while at the Texas Gulf Coast.

5.10.23

Insomnia

Insomnia 1, ca. 2017

Insomnia 2, ca. 2017

I created these pieces during a period where I was not sleeping well. As I would lay in the dark night, trying to will myself to sleep, my brain would be running. Amorphous and swirling agglomerations of emotions, thoughts, and impressions seemed to populate the black landscape stretching before my closed eyes. These abstract in black collages were my attempt to capture that.

Stash of old unfinished work

I recently came across a bunch of small, mostly unfinished pieces I did years ago. These have been laying in a box in a closet. Many were probably originally meant to be part of some bigger, unrealized project. Others were experiments with technique or just a collage doodle. I am surprised they have held together, given they are just hand-cut paper and gluestick. To preserve some of their memory, I thought it best to scan them. Presented here in no particular order.

6.7.23

Game Board

Game Board (2023)

Chicken Little and the Drive for Success

Chicken Little and the Drive for Success (2023)

5.7.23

Fragment of Beauty

Fragment of Beauty (2023)

15.6.23

The Temple of the Illusion of Control

The Temple of the Illusion of Control, 2023.

I also really appreciate this draft assembly with good afternoon light

11.12.20

Isolation Art

What Lies Beyond

I made these pieces in isolation following a fraught air travel home. Having lost my mother and my dog, I passed two weeks alone in my basement to protect my husband. I did not need to bring home any viral stow-aways.

I had not created anything for several months, since before my mother first went into the hospital for an operation.

I do not know how to read these pieces and whether they are indicative of my emotional state...but then I never do.