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WATER & WOOD
October 2024

When we look at the world, we see a Color Positive image. When we capture that image on film, the negative contains the same visual information, but is light where the image is dark, and dark where the image is light, conjuring a mysterious inverse world. The subjects I have chosen to paint represent the familiar: desert landscapes, cityscapes, and figures. Their negative counterparts represent the unfamiliar. In this moment of peak political division in America, I am drawn to positive and negative color images. I am drawn to paint them one next to the other, opposed, but in conversation.

This series is Mixed Media on Wood Panel (Watercolor, Varnish with UV Protection). The transparency of watercolor requires a particular intentionality that opaque mediums, which can be covered over by white, do not. As color is added to the white base, every brush stroke remains visible until the piece is finished.