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“As a multidisciplinary artist committed to learning, I
work in beeswax, resin and oil,
often incorporating stones, found objects, lead sheeting, precious metals, textiles, papers, glass, and bronze. A constant thread in my work is the elemen- tal archetypes of the physical and cosmic world: wa- ter; fire; woods, mountains and earth; air and wind; space and ether.”
Horizontal lines offer visual boundaries: sky and ocean with the simplicity of shadows and light; strata of earth walls with subtle seeps of water; pathways in quiet snow. The work vibrates between opposites: marks of delicate tracery against heavy incising; smooth melted wax confronted by textured oil stick; reversal of colors with reflections of metal leaf. When the line turns to vertical, stacking lines then paral-
lel the continual seismic wavelengths of the earth’s movements and our personal heart rhythms. They repeat the microcosms of forests. Lines become the walls and fences of the volatile systems of existence in which we are living. The gates become the escape from our unstable world.”
CatheRine eaton sKinneR