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The Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award
First Place for Fine Art
“Wax is different than other mediums. It is mutable, uid, responsive, and for-
giving. It is hotter, faster, and more physical.
It doesn’t wait for you; instead, it hardens and you must apply heat to reawaken it. It sings your song and resists control, although control is entirely possible. It bends to your ways and leads you down new paths. It has its own voice and its own language that suggests and leads, responds and obeys....Form, color, and spirit are the language of painting. They serve the real concerns—inspiration, intention, and concept— which are brought into reality through the some- times challenging but always rewarding medium of encaustic. Encaustic ows more, breathes more, has more depth, and has an inherent beauty. Encaustic painting, as all painting, is the exploration of the internal manifested as the external. It is a spiritual practice, a developed routine: it is an extension of our being.”
–From the afterward, by Ellen Koment, in Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
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