This series developed while working on the previous series, "The Escape”.
I wanted to create a mini series that featured large shifting landscapes on a smaller scale while playing with shapes and colors. So I stretched a few canvases, applied a few layers of clear gesso, and let them sit on the shelf in my studio.
After many sketches of various compositions and color trials, I was ready to apply my first ink layers to the canvas. The ink was mixed to my desired tones, opacities, etc, then applied through swift, practiced, and intentional brush marks. By choosing a calming, meditative process, subject matter, and color palette, I created these pieces to induce a quiet moment of relief and restoration.
Creating this work allowed me to slow down and react to the marks as they were applied to the canvas. While still remembering my desired outcome, like a choreographed ritual captured in one final performance on the canvas. Letting my muscle memory take over and quieting my mind.
In fast times we often forget to slow down and breathe, to step outside ourselves. This work is a reaction to chaotic times rather than an example of the times. A necessary grounding aid to the constant shifting and evolving that is always taking place.
Series available to subscribers Wednesday, March 1st 2021 and to the public Thursday, March 2nd 2021.
