Ghosts
The Ghosts are portraits created in a highly textured, highly reflective environment. The series started with Bound, a commission, in 2006. It was a self-portrait, excepting physical resemblance, and with it began a pattern of painting the truth even when I didn’t want to or didn’t necessarily know what it was. As such, most of these are studies of my perception of my subject.
They are difficult to photograph and work very well in lowly lit rooms as the silver paints capture and reflect enough light that the figures glow.
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Foundation
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16″ x 20″ acrylic on wooden panel. Self-portrait. 2010
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The Poet
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“We’re stuck here squirming trying to see what holds us.
Hoping that once we see it we may be free.
Hoping because we must. That is our prison.
We’re only so much flesh.
Only so much meat to feed our time.
How far can we get?
Before we’re too weak to go on.
Strength stripped away in ribbons and pulp.
Pinned by whatever surrounds us when we stop.”
-The Poet
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60″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas with steel, twine, and clock weight frame. 2010
Meconnaissance
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“She has fastened the deadbolts and closed the blinds.
And he came back only this once, to turn off the noise.”
Meconnaissance. 24″ x 48″ acrylic on canvas. December 2009.
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With Slightly More Ribbons and Silver Bracelets
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They are bound together,
tied by ribbons of experience
and buckles of spoken words.
In quiet resignation
they stand,
senses closed to all
but the press of her back
against his chest.
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48″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas. Completed in 2008.
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Helicase
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Helicase is 36″ x 18″ acrylic on canvas. It has a steel frame not pictured. Feb 2007
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Three Quarter Turn: A Perception Study
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and he held her there,
under his arm,
a newspaper to be read later
at his convenience.
she laughed,
content in her game
and her ignorance.
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48″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas with steel frame binding. Early 2007.
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Balance
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30″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas. Summer 2008.
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Beneath the Tree of Life
and there under the roots she found the key, the golden orb grown from and creating the tree.
She held it, cradling it in her palm, as it trembled.
I release you
12″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas. Complete on commission in 2007. Sold.
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Bound
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With winds whipping
her tattered skirt
as she falls
and hands tied
behind her back,
she descends
with alarming rapidity.
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48″ x 36″ acrylic on canvas. Completed on commission in 2007. Sold.