Cosmic Flora
These are spaces of both blooming and burning, spaces of immense transformation, of order and wilderness. Inspired by sound, auras, elements, multifacted palettes, and mineral palettes. Visualizing the process of shedding layers that are not needed anymore, and creating more space for wild growth.
Catch and Release ∙ 22” x 30”
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Description: To hold on and let go with effort and passivity. To be rooted in the soils and minerals of the earth with a soft gaze beyond the sky. Painted with a little bit of everything - veins of hematite, waves of azurite, branches of ochre and ash, touches of foraged soil, clay and seashells, and infused with synthetic washes.
Materials: Iron Oxide and Graphite from Washington, Hematite and Iron Oxide from Wonder Valley, Azurite sourced from Kazakhstan, Quinacridone, Tourmaline, Pyrrole, Copper Vitriol, and a few others.
Year: 2021
The Way Out ∙ 22” x 22”
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Description: Capturing air and breath and a singular blossom. The sound of the wild, a cascading flow and pooling of harmonious liquid earth. Branching out beyond the boundaries, centered on home.
Materials: Hematite, Iron Oxides and salvaged bricks from Wonder Valley. Iron Oxides from Washington. Lazurite sourced from Afghanistan. Quinacridone and a few others.
Year: 2021
Uprising ∙ 22” x 30”
Blossom ∙ 22” x 22”
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Description: Petals don’t fall, they rise. Decay seen as a rebirth. The shapes are a window into the merging of different elemental worlds. The colors are produced from mineral and earth matter such as lazurite, ochre, copper, and tourmaline alongside commercially synthesized pigments and handpicked rocks from mountain rivers near my home in WA. A bridging between handmade and manufactured, natural and synthetic, wild and urban.
Materials: Iron Oxide and Graphite from Washington, Hematite and Iron Oxide from Wonder Valley, Azurite sourced from Kazakhstan, Quinacridone, Tourmaline, Pyrrole, Copper Vitriol, and a few others.
Year: 2021
Unlock ∙ 11” x 11”
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Description: Time has certainly flown 🕊 What happens when you let go, when you find the right key.
Year: 2021
Heart Seed ∙ 11” x 11”
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Description: Tending to the garden, a seed planted and a heart released. Evaporating what isn't needed and welcoming new growth 🌿
Materials: Painted with ochre, hematite, verdigris, clay, quinacridone, and lazurite.
Year: 2021
Balloon ∙ 22” x 22”
Earthly Bloom ∙ 22” x 30”
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Description: The finishing marks were adding a few last details of levity and blossoming, as if a wind is passing through. Reordering itself amidst the tangle and fury, because something is blooming regardless. This is a chaotic piece for a chaotic year.
Materials: Azurite, ochre, malachite, hematite, quinacridone, graphite, potter's pink, vivianite, lazurite, pink clay, and a few others.
Year: 2021
A Petal for Each ∙ 8” x 8”
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Description: A petal each for different elements and pathways drawn in to and out to landscapes.
Materials: Pink clay, pthalo, graphite, and a few others.
Year: 2021
