HighNoon,
is a collage of material and process,
rather than a collage of imagery.

Detail - Collage of process

Each material, each process intended to add to the chorus with a strong clear voice.

tenuous tapestry of nylon netting,
oil Paint soaked through raw linen
encaustic soaked through oil paint and linen,
binding all to the mahogany panel beneath
pigmented Encaustic layered on the surface
encaustic medium, a semi transparent texture
impasto oil paint on the surface.
incomplete linen foundation
dyed and inked Okumi mahogany panel supporting all.

Detail - Reflection

Strands of red painted canvas canoe
and unleashed warp-strings float free.
All unravel in imperfect reflection.

Detail - Mahogany panel, breaking through woven canvas
A close-up examination of the solid ground that I may think I stand upon.

Detail - Tapestry provides the final backdrop
- beyond the humans, beyond the solid mahogany panel,
lies the deeply woven richness of the forest

Detail - Oil on paper sketched figures -
stuck like sticky-notes onto their environment

Verity,
humans float upon an oil-on-paper sketch
set apart from the world
of wood and tapestry and woven canvas
that they inhabit

Human mediation:
does it provide
an open invitation into the
solid, opulent, woven world
that can be sensed?
Or does it guard and gate-keep
A barrier between the world is sensed
and the world that is understood?

Detail - Tapestry, Encaustic and Oil Paint

Cotton twine,
sisal twine,
manila rope,
hemp rope,
and undyed wool;
these make up the underlying structural tapestry of the land.

They lend form and definition beyond the capability of flat colour.

Grandly textured hoizon

Detail - Raking light from below
The textural tapestry allows the light from the centre horizon.

Stuck here, she looks to there.

Detail - flat figure
Even though I think she feels like a glued-on bit of paper,
In truth, the figure is painted directly on the raw birch panel.
She is the flattest, most embedded part of this work.

Marco?...

Just beyond the horizon, just beyond her grasp.
In graphite and gold; the warp threads of the tapestry
reach across the gap
between her here
and her there.

Detail - Bound by beeswax...

Encaustic paints bind
the warp threads,
the woolen gathering of humans
and even the human-made reinforcing steel bars
to the panel.

...and encaustic paints depict the strangely separate animal figure

Donna,

mother and child
afloat but most definitely not adrift
in a vessel

mother and child
composed in a secure but open-ended
triangular structure.

A solid historical construction,
a time-tested way of being


At once tightly coherent but open ended;
At once static but moving with formidable force through the world.

Donna,

mother and child
afloat but most definitely not adrift
in a vessel

mother and child
composed in a secure but open-ended
triangular structure.

A solid historical construction,
a time-tested way of being


At once tightly coherent but open ended;
At once static but moving with formidable force through the world.