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I am a tree. An underwater tree.
They are clouds, of moon jellies perfectly buoyant, floating in air.
Water is air.
(wall is aquarium)
Water planet... water stars, Celestial ocean.
In these new works, I am exploring horizontality and bigness. A figure maker at my core (beings), I’ve always found the sideways a challenge:
‘Are they lying on the ground?’
‘No, they must float! As if caught mid-ascension.’
But now, I see them as clouds—gestalt landscapes contained within their own borders, demi-gods of the troposphere.
They have also begun to sprout eyes and stars — emerging similarly to light sensing dots on experimental brain organoids. They remind me of squid eyes, but without a face (more like potato eyes). The star is the negative space of four circles, a bauble, a dingbat decoration, and, of course, a Star — a bright circle that twinkles at a great distance (diffraction spikes).
As for color now, I’ve been working to develop a method for pigment dyeing at home without high heat or…
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I am a tree. An underwater tree.
They are clouds, of moon jellies perfectly buoyant, floating in air.
Water is air.
(wall is aquarium)
Water planet... water stars, Celestial ocean.
In these new works, I am exploring horizontality and bigness. A figure maker at my core (beings), I’ve always found the sideways a challenge:
‘Are they lying on the ground?’
‘No, they must float! As if caught mid-ascension.’
But now, I see them as clouds—gestalt landscapes contained within their own borders, demi-gods of the troposphere.
They have also begun to sprout eyes and stars — emerging similarly to light sensing dots on experimental brain organoids. They remind me of squid eyes, but without a face (more like potato eyes). The star is the negative space of four circles, a bauble, a dingbat decoration, and, of course, a Star — a bright circle that twinkles at a great distance (diffraction spikes).
As for color now, I’ve been working to develop a method for pigment dyeing at home without high heat or…
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