This series is about my love of spacious outdoor places and my spiritual connection with the earth. By collecting earth pigments from locations I visit, I incorporate both the actual earth samples and the evidence of my direct contact with the earth and these places. Teabag and coffee filter papers in my art continue to represent the quiet meditative moments associated with the act of sitting quietly in contemplation and also act as markers for the countless incremental moments of time that make up geological history.
Some of these works also use earth pigments in patterns that have symbolic meanings based on rules defined by Morse code, binary and bar codes. This creates layers of meaning – from the basic abstracted imagery, to the meanings I associate with my chosen materials, to the coded messages in the patterns.
Red Planet
Postcards from Holiday
Once There Were Great Mountains
Morning on Planet Earth
Littoral Abstraction
Life on Earth
Activities of Daily Living
Om (Code 39)
Alluvial Om #2
Earth Palette
Earth Sampler
Chant
Chant II
At night we saw lights in the sky
Alluvial OM
Heavens and Earths #1
Heavens and Earths #2
Heavens and Earths #3
Heavens and Earths #4
Earth Sample #1
Earth Sample #2
Earth Sample #3
Earth Sample #4
Earth Quadrant #5
Earth Quadrant #6
Earth Quadrant #7
Earth Quadrant #8
En Echelon
Graben
Horst
