Abacus is about counting,
about fairness and unfairness,
worry and acceptance.
Here my subject is poetic botanical abstraction. I paint imagined seeds, contained, dispersing or seen through a micro or macro lens.
I am inspired by the early photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and the Svalbard seed vault, where boxed seeds lay protected from climate change. Conveying the idea of cold, I limit myself to the cool winter palette. An amalgam of natural materials, ash, plaster, paper and pumice maintains a harmony between material and subject in my work. These paintings earned their patina through hours of mixed media seeking, submerging and sounding.
Abacus is about counting,
about fairness and unfairness,
worry and acceptance.
Here my subject is poetic botanical abstraction. I paint imagined seeds, contained, dispersing or seen through a micro or macro lens.
I am inspired by the early photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and the Svalbard seed vault, where boxed seeds lay protected from climate change. Conveying the idea of cold, I limit myself to the cool winter palette. An amalgam of natural materials, ash, plaster, paper and pumice maintains a harmony between material and subject in my work. These paintings earned their patina through hours of mixed media seeking, submerging and sounding.