New

New is a body of mixed media work that redefines my creative strategies and shifts focus from human relationship issues to human experience. Rather than traditional light sources, paintings bathed in the flickering glow of projected video images are newly animated with action and sound.

In mixed media paintings, Burning Bush and Slow, the combination of still and moving images accompanied by sound, heightens both the personal and universal narrative. These mediums and images exist in relation to each other and would have no substance on their own. For example, in Burning Bush, I made a painting of a bush, set it on fire and filming the event. The piece pairs together both the charred painting and the video of the painting burning.

 

The piece Spin metaphors life’s dizzying challenges. A vertical slice of a tree layered with the projection of tree tops in an endless spinning cycle, creates a developing feeling of vertigo with each rotation, and is reinforced by the relentless sound of the wind.

Suck uses surround sound to create experience and define space. A room absent of light isolates and enhances the rhythmic sound of a nursing infant, as it increases in layers of repetition.

In New, mediums coalesce with universal themes of life and death to create works layered with meaning. Each piece looks at the relationship between experiences of the spiritual and temporal realms, the foundations of existential thought.