Month: January 2016

Isolating Nature

I saw this gnarly tree when walking into the woods.  I’ve printed it out onto copier paper as a tiled photograph.  I painted out everything in the background so that I isolated just the tree in order that it could be seen in all its gnarly glory. Painting over photos is something Tacita Dean does, Read More …

Seed Collecting

Walking in the woods in autumn collecting seeds and seed heads from dead and dying plants. I used brown envelopes to impose a limit on how much I could take back to the studio. Aquilegia seed head. A handful of seeds are a handful of potential life. Collecting envelope, sketch to identify where the seeds Read More …