Series > ongoing work: The Polarities Project (at the gates of fortune lives a long, dry heat)

Emblem
Accordion book, Pigment print on watercolor paper
3.75"x5", 2020-2021
Emblem
2020-2021
Untitled (Stolen Cypress)
mixed media on paper
34" x 6"
2023
Night for Day
Accordion book, mixed media
5" x 7" (x16 pages)
2022
Night for Day
detail
2022
Untitled Scene
Typewritten text on endpaper
8 1/2" x 11"
2022
bon bon il est un pays [The Land of If and When]
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
bon bon it est un pays
mixed media on postcard
6" x 4"
2023
I married an heiress
pen & ink and typewritten text on vellum
14" x 11"
2022
Stolen Cypress
india ink and paper collage on wood
22" x 22", 2020-2021
from suite (the half life of spring)
pen and ink on heavyweight paper
12" x 9"
2021
from suite (the half life of spring)
pen and ink on heavyweight paper
12"x9"
2021
Untitled 1 (the half life of spring)
pen and ink on heavyweight paper
14" x 11"
2021
Untitled 3 (the half life of spring)
pen and ink on heavyweight paper
14" x 11"
2021
Untitled 2 (the half life of spring)
pen and ink on heavyweight paper
14" x 11"
2021
Untitled (cube poems)
Mixed media on watercolor paper
each cube 3"x3"x3"
2021
Untitled (cube poems)
Mixed media on watercolor paper
each cube 3"x3"x3"
2021

The Polarities Project was conceived at the beginning of the pandemic in response to the cumulative disparities erupting around us. It was an implicit, intuitive response, rather than an obvious one. I was feeling my way around a poetic sensibility that would indirectly wrestle with the various themes in a way that could rouse the imagination without assault (the assault of the bleaker parts of our present existence on this earth). This ongoing project was conceived with a 4-fold thematic structure (see the Accordian book, Emblem): Stolen Cypress [land degradation], A Bored Tycoon [wealth disparities], The Half-life of Spring [extremes in climate due to climate change], and The Land of If and When [the intimate human struggle in the face of extremes].