Do You Have Kids? , 2020
9“ x 12”
Oil pastel, magazine, acrylic, white-out correction fluid, pen, and watercolor on handmade paper made from recycled junk mail and office scraps
Image Description: A bright orange-stained piece of paper features large text that spells out in thick white-out lines “What Do You Do With Your Time?” and “How Old Are You”. Scribbled in pen at the bottom of the page is text that reads “Get It” and “Do It All”. A large cut-out of a bald eagle swoops down the left side of the paper, ready to get-it-all.
Grow Up, 2019
9” x 12”
Acrylic on paper stretched on a recycled picture frame
Image Description: A still life painting of two sunflowers that are reaching/growing upwards in an ambiguous landscape with a pastel-hued background. Text painted in an off-white acrylic paint reads “Grow Up”.
Portside, 2020
10” x 7”
Acrylic, photo transfer, watercolor, and pen on the rough draft of a handwritten letter on paper made from office scraps to the NC DAQ (regarding methyl bromide regulations at the Port of Wilmington).
Image Description: A torn, handwritten letter to the NC Department of Air Quality requesting immediate and safer methyl bromide regulations be set in force in regards to the log fumigation at Ecolab’s Royal Pest Solutions at the Port of Wilmington. Pressed on top of this letter is a bark-like photo transfer of the wood pellet operation near the shipyard near my house (e.g.piles of pine logs), with large acrylic text painted on top reading: “CLEAN AIR: YES, NO or the freedom to buy it”. Coloring of the letters is a toxic red, white, and blue.
Are You Sure?, 2019
9” x 12”
Acrylic on paper stretched on recyled picture frame
Image Description: A portrait of a woman in a bra—the subject’s head is turned toward their right, and her eyes look towards the viewer. It feels like a selfie. The subject is wearing glasses and the background is a millenial pink and rich magenta inky wash. Peach-colored, painted text floats in the background, and reads “Are You Sure?”
Healthy Lawn Analysis, 2020
9” x 12”
acrylic, dye, collage, pen, plastic bottle caps, and lawn clippings on handmade paper made from junk mail
Image Description: A collage of plastic bottle caps from gallon-water jugs, sorted into a grid-like structure with green rectangles. The green rectangles are filled with pen marks resembling grass/lawns, and outlined in white gesso. Inside each cap is a handful of lawn clippings dipped in toxic-looking green plastic paint. There is the shape of an exclamation point on the right hand side of the grid. A collage cut-out reads “healthy lawn analysis” and another reads “proactively address weed threats”.
Earthlings, 2020
7” x 5.5” x .5”
Acrylic, oil pastel, money tree leaf, Little Debbie packaging, and pen on handmade paper
Image Description: This mixed media painting features a cut-out of two gingerbread people cookies from Little Debbie Gingerbread Cookie packaging. These two cookie cut-outs are sitting on top of an earthly-hued surface made of sienna/sap green/buff oil pastels layers, pen markings, and a money tree leaf. The edges of the paper, which have a rough and inconsistent deckle, are dyed bright pink.
Tracker, 2020
7” x 6.5” x .5”
Twigs, colored pencil, collage, and packaging materials on handmade (beach) sandpaper on painted cardboard
Image description: A textured piece of handmade paper with beach sand embedded on its surface is mounted on bright, yellow-painted cardboard. Lined up on the sandpaper is a row of thin sticks with buds. One of the sticks points down to a piece of the cardboard that was not painted yellow, revealing a P65 cancer warning. Next to the line of sticks is a bar code that is embalmed in clear, acrylic gel.
Buy the Waves, 2020
7.5" x 6" x .75"
Acrylic, ink, magazine, styrofoam, and seashells on handmade (beach) sandpaper
Image Description: A translucent blue/green ink horizon line divides a bright yellow acrylic foreground from a mossy green/blue/black acrylic background. A rectangular piece of styrofoam stretches lengthwise across the foreground. Collaged on top of this is a long magazine cut-out of a posed group of people wearing business casual clothes. The yellow paint of the foreground covers the collaged image so it barely peaks through, and on top of the yellow paint are three evenly placed seashells plopped into yellow/umber acrylic.