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“Continuing with a fascination with geologically dynamic landscapes,
my recent series of paintings and works on paper are a study in environmental transitions through abstraction. With a focus on Central California and the effects of the San Andreas Fault, the dramatic and ever-shifting land is explored through the combination of paint, ink, and fabric on canvas, wood panel, and paper.
“In my work I process the unpredictable natural manifestations and surprising juxtapositions that I have observed by physi- cally composing and manipulating materials. I begin by paint- ing and staining various fabrics with ink and acrylic paint. The liquid pigment on fabric parallels the powerful geological pro- cesses my work explores. In some places the forms are dense and saturated while in others the pigments seep and splash. Once painted I cut the fabric into strips and imbed them in more layers of paint and ink, sometimes sewing the fragments together, to create striated compositions.
“Like tectonic plates pushing past one another, the fabric bands, sewn together or collaged, are offset to create frag- mented forms that mimic the kinetic energy of natural process- es. The disjunction of forms also allows me to explore multiple perspectives at once, simultaneously capturing what is above and below ground. The discontinuous bands of fabric suspend and intertwine different moments in time. Evidence of the effects of the San Andreas Fault, running the length of Califor- nia, are both seen and unseen and are in no way complete.”
All photos by Dana Davis
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Ghost
acrylic, fabric on wood panel 30'' x 40''
cynthia ona innis