In The Language of The Birds
Site Specific Installation at the Judy Black Memorial
Washington CT 2018.
This is a site Specific Installation. These artworks are a gathering of individually painted bird/leaf like shapes which form a melodic constellation where no one form dominates and all parts reinforce one another in holistic cohesion. The works have been inspired by watching the shadows from backlit leaves in sunlit trees and listening to the syncopation of multiple species of birds, every song a different sound, all singing together. Each form is cut from 2 mm thick expanded PVC sheets and then painted with three colors: red black and white.
"...We buy ashes for bread, We buy diluted wine; Give me of the true, Whose ample leaves and tendrils curled Among the silver hills of heaven, Draw everlasting dew; Wine of wine, Blood of the world, Form of forms, and mould of statures, That I; intoxicated, And by the draught assimilated, May float at pleasure through all natures; The bird-language rightly spell, And that which roses say so well...” Ralph Waldo Emerson
In The Language Of The Birds
Acrylic collage on Multiple Expanded PVC Sheets.
96 x 96 inches. 2018.
Bird Spell
Acrylic collage on Multiple Expanded PVC Sheets. 96 x 96 inches. 2018.
Detail of a side view of the painted PVC shapes
Hypnus
Acrylic on Plexiglas relief 17.5 x 12.5 x 1 inch 2015
Sentinel
Acrylic on wood relief 18 ½ x 10½ x 2 ½ inches 2010-15
Coda 4
Acrylic on wood relief 13 x 11 x 2 ½ inches 2010-15
Coda 3
Acrylic on wood relief. 15 3/4 x 11 ½ x 2 ½ inches. 2010-15
In A Single Bud
14 x 11 ¾ inches. Acrylic on Wood. 2010
Coda 1
Acrylic on wood relief. 14 x 10 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. 2010-15
Coda 2
Acrylic on wood relief. 17 ½ x 12 ½ x 3 inches. 2010-15
In A Folded Leaf 4. 2017
acrylic on wood.
7 1/2 x 6 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches
In A Folded Leaf 3. 2017
acrylic on wood.
6 x 4.5 x 2.5 inches
In A Folded Leaf 5 2017
acrylic on wood.
10.5 x 8.5 x 3 inches
In A Folded Leaf 7 2017
acrylic on wood.
8 x 5 x 2.5 inches.
In A Folded Leaf 6 2017
acrylic on wood.
6 x 4.5 x 2.5 inches
In A Folded Leaf 4. 2017
acrylic on wood.
8.5 x 8.5 x 3 inches.
In A Folded Leaf 1. 2017
acrylic on wood.
8 5/8 x 6 3/4 X 2 inches
In A Folded Leaf 8 2017
acrylic on wood.
5.5 x 4 x2 inches.
