http://www.caprarioart.com Caprario Art Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:51:03 +0000 http://www.caprarioart.com en http://www.caprarioart.com/Exhibition-Documentation http://www.caprarioart.com/following/caprarioart.com/Exhibition-Documentation Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:51:03 +0000 Caprario Art 281924 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Springfield-Museum_2a_7.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Springfield-Museum_2a_7_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Springfield-Museum_4a_8.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Springfield-Museum_4a_8_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/FL-Show-4b_9_800.jpg" border="0" width="700" height="461" width_o="700" height_o="461" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/FL-Show-4b_9_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Hult-Center-Reunion-Show1.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Hult-Center-Reunion-Show1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Lane-Community-College_1a_2.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Lane-Community-College_1a_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Lane-Community-College_2a_3.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Lane-Community-College_2a_3_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Lane-Community-College_3a_4.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/Lane-Community-College_3a_4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/LCC-Show-2007a_5.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/LCC-Show-2007a_5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/2009_State-Fair-Art-Installation1_1.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/2009_State-Fair-Art-Installation1_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/RSG-Fall-a_6.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281924/RSG-Fall-a_6_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://www.caprarioart.com/Transition-Zones-2003-2007 http://www.caprarioart.com/following/caprarioart.com/Transition-Zones-2003-2007 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:30:37 +0000 Caprario Art 281890 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Breath-of-Dawn.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="520" width_o="502" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Breath-of-Dawn_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Luminous-Moment.jpg" border="0" width="505" height="520" width_o="505" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Luminous-Moment_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Genesis-Installation1.jpg" border="0" width="509" height="520" width_o="509" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Genesis-Installation1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Light-Shade-After-Turner.jpg" border="0" width="448" height="500" width_o="448" height_o="500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Light-Shade-After-Turner_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Transition-Zone.jpg" border="0" width="497" height="520" width_o="497" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Transition-Zone_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Migration_View1.jpg" border="0" width="544" height="520" width_o="544" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Migration_View1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Red-Eclipse1.jpg" border="0" width="501" height="520" width_o="501" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Red-Eclipse1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Sacred-Cut.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="520" width_o="500" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Sacred-Cut_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Somewhere.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="520" width_o="502" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Somewhere_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/The-Effects-of-Weather copy.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="520" width_o="502" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/The-Effects-of-Weather copy_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/The-Enchantment1.jpg" border="0" width="498" height="520" width_o="498" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/The-Enchantment1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Emergence1.jpg" border="0" width="498" height="520" width_o="498" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281890/Emergence1_o.jpg" align="left" /> "presence:absence" 1:36 minutes; 2006 Project Details I hear the murmurings of poetry in each mark and brushstroke I make; the paint itself, completely plastic and full of possibility is the perfect vehicle for metaphor and essentially poetic in its material nature. While it can depict that which is empirical and observational it always holds out part of itself for the expression of what is known without words and felt without reason. By eliminating recognizable references in favor of a rigorously reduced and abstracted construction of space, color is used to create atmospheres that aspire to the intangible weight of the sublime while simultaneously acknowledging the hierarchy of the surface structure and the materiality of the experience. I do not mean to depict an illusionist and chiaroscuro interpretation of space whose task is to seduce the viewer into believing in something which is not but rather to identify the spatial movements that map and quantify a potential experience not necessarily observational but physical nonetheless -- a story of space. The paintings may be installed as individual pieces or effectively grouped panoramically or in a grid-configuration to create an expanded composition and dialogue. http://www.caprarioart.com/Illuminations-mid-1980-s-2001 http://www.caprarioart.com/following/caprarioart.com/Illuminations-mid-1980-s-2001 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:30:36 +0000 Caprario Art 281892 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-03-Light-Beyond-the-World_11.jpg" border="0" width="367" height="529" width_o="367" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-03-Light-Beyond-the-World_11_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-04-Night-Star_12.jpg" border="0" width="347" height="529" width_o="347" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-04-Night-Star_12_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-07-Tides-of-Memory.jpg" border="0" width="542" height="520" width_o="542" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-07-Tides-of-Memory_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-09-Hidden-Passage.jpg" border="0" width="317" height="530" width_o="317" height_o="530" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-09-Hidden-Passage_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.02.CITY-OF-ROCKS_13.jpg" border="0" width="346" height="529" width_o="346" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.02.CITY-OF-ROCKS_13_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.01.OCEAN-ARCH.jpg" border="0" width="362" height="520" width_o="362" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.01.OCEAN-ARCH_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-12-Storm-Watch-2a.jpg" border="0" width="515" height="520" width_o="515" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario-12-Storm-Watch-2a_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.07.TIL-THE-MOON-BE-NO-MORE.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="506" width_o="688" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.07.TIL-THE-MOON-BE-NO-MORE_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.12.STILLNESS-BEFORE-THE-DARK1_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="410" width_o="1014" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.12.STILLNESS-BEFORE-THE-DARK1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.15.SILENT-MESA.jpg" border="0" width="618" height="520" width_o="618" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.15.SILENT-MESA_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.17.CAIRN.jpg" border="0" width="498" height="505" width_o="498" height_o="505" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.17.CAIRN_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.18.AT-THE-EDGE-OF-DAWN1.jpg" border="0" width="520" height="520" width_o="520" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281892/Caprario.18.AT-THE-EDGE-OF-DAWN1_o.jpg" align="left" /> Project Details These works are representative of a fifteen-year period between the mid 1980’s and 2001. Wood panels have been my painting support since the 1980’s. I prefer the firmness of the surface to that of canvas for painting on and the opportunities for patterned embellishment and leafing on the edges. That patterning is done using leather stamping or homemade tools and is intricately designed and applied—thousands of “punches” are worked on each piece. The leafed area surrounding the central image is an integral part of the piece and provides a separation between the interior image and the outside world in much the same way as medieval artists used gold leaf as “light materialized” in the creation of icons. For the drawings, Lenox 100 rag paper is used as the support and an ebony pencil, rather than oil paint, creates the central image. My paintings and drawings are windows that open onto a familiar, yet different view of reality and evoke a dream-like journey of the imagination. Eons have passed since the land depicted was formed and we, the viewer, can imagine all of it in one glance. What is not visibly presented in real-time is as salient and palpable as what is actually seen: the dichotomy between presence and absence and an elongation of time are explored and questioned. http://www.caprarioart.com/Losing-Boundaries-2007-2009 http://www.caprarioart.com/following/caprarioart.com/Losing-Boundaries-2007-2009 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:28:00 +0000 Caprario Art 281888 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Flux.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="520" width_o="502" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Flux_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Echo2.jpg" border="0" width="501" height="520" width_o="501" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Echo2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Heat-Haze.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="520" width_o="500" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Heat-Haze_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Losing-Boundaries.jpg" border="0" width="504" height="520" width_o="504" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Losing-Boundaries_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Jentel_2_5.jpg" border="0" width="502" height="520" width_o="502" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Jentel_2_5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Jentel_3_6.jpg" border="0" width="501" height="520" width_o="501" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Jentel_3_6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Journey-Song.jpg" border="0" width="499" height="520" width_o="499" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Journey-Song_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Lunar-Moment.jpg" border="0" width="503" height="520" width_o="503" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Lunar-Moment_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Thousand-Acres.jpg" border="0" width="504" height="520" width_o="504" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/Thousand-Acres_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/CAPRARIO_-02_Lake-Abert-Pathways_1_800.jpg" border="0" width="689" height="520" width_o="689" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/CAPRARIO_-02_Lake-Abert-Pathways_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/CAPRARIO_01_Harney-County-Pathways1_800.jpg" border="0" width="681" height="520" width_o="681" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/CAPRARIO_01_Harney-County-Pathways1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/CAPRARIO_03_Malheur-Lake-Pathways.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="515" width_o="676" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/281888/CAPRARIO_03_Malheur-Lake-Pathways_o.jpg" align="left" /> Project Details The acrylic on wood panel paintings presented are part of a series initiated at a month-long artist residency in 2007 at the Jentel Foundation in Northeast Wyoming; the beautifully rugged and ever-changing landscape of the area served as both observational and conceptual inspiration for the resulting work. I approach the work from the point of view of materiality, process and freely exploring the plasticity of the acrylic media. Working topographically, paint is layered, flooded and removed often mimicking the natural effects of erosion and sedimentation. The haze produced by regional forest fires filtered into the work becoming a veil that seductively separated that which is clear, spatial and present from that which is obscured, absent or diminished. Force and matter combine to generate images conceived without intentionality and suggest a loss of boundaries—those areas being transition zones between control and chaos, and the internal and external realities of existence. Geometric stripes aid in quantifying and organize the visual information presented, a mapping system, of sorts. The graphic gestalt of the stripes allows for the perception of patterns and spaces that were painted without a predetermined outcome in mind—chaos organized. http://www.caprarioart.com/The-Lake-Maps-2009-Current http://www.caprarioart.com/following/caprarioart.com/The-Lake-Maps-2009-Current Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:56 +0000 Caprario Art 280834 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_8_800.jpg" border="0" width="684" height="521" width_o="684" height_o="521" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_8_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_9_800.jpg" border="0" width="681" height="520" width_o="681" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_9_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift-Map-3_Graphite-copy_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="434" width_o="958" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift-Map-3_Graphite-copy_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift-Map_4_800.jpg" border="0" width="688" height="526" width_o="688" height_o="526" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift-Map_4_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift-Map_5-bigger2_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="420" width_o="1006" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift-Map_5-bigger2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift Map_6 copy_800.jpg" border="0" width="686" height="520" width_o="686" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Drift Map_6 copy_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Lake-in-Fog_Ink_bigger2_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="220" width_o="1918" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Lake-in-Fog_Ink_bigger2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Lakeview_Ink_bigger_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="214" width_o="1884" height_o="504" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Lakeview_Ink_bigger_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Late-Afternoon-Lake_Ink_bigger_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="405" width_o="1025" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Late-Afternoon-Lake_Ink_bigger_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Lake Map_1_800.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="438" width_o="965" height_o="529" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Lake Map_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map 1_Watercolor- Graphite.jpg" border="0" width="667" height="520" width_o="667" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map 1_Watercolor- Graphite_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow-Map-2_Watercolor--Graphite_800.jpg" border="0" width="681" height="520" width_o="681" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow-Map-2_Watercolor--Graphite_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map 3_Watercolor- Graphite_800.jpg" border="0" width="685" height="520" width_o="685" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map 3_Watercolor- Graphite_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map_4 copy_800.jpg" border="0" width="695" height="520" width_o="695" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map_4 copy_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map_5_800.jpg" border="0" width="680" height="520" width_o="680" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map_5_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map_6_800.jpg" border="0" width="678" height="520" width_o="678" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Shadow Map_6_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Waterbodies 1_Watercolor.jpg" border="0" width="368" height="520" width_o="368" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Waterbodies 1_Watercolor_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Waterbodies 2_Watercolor.jpg" border="0" width="669" height="520" width_o="669" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Waterbodies 2_Watercolor_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Waterbodies 3_Watercolor.jpg" border="0" width="355" height="520" width_o="355" height_o="520" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/24640/280834/Caprario_Waterbodies 3_Watercolor_o.jpg" align="left" /> Project Details Initiated while on an awarded retreat in June, 2009 at The Morris Graves’ Foundation, Loleta, CA., several simultaneous routes of inquiry are explored in resulting work. Landscape and the relationship of Self to Nature have been at the core of my work. It is the wonder of things and that moment when beauty overwhelms the senses and quietly infiltrates and transforms the viewer’s perception that compels me. My work is a response to the sublime through observational research and the identification of landscape motifs that are re-imagined as a dynamic union with place. Viewer location, the relationship of the far reaching vs. the fixed gaze, the simultaneity of presence and absence, as well as the cultural and fractal dynamics of pattern are all areas of overlapping concern. An interest in the mathematical patterning of Zellij design (I took a course with Jean-Marc Castera in 2006) and Penrose tiling as well as fractal expressionism and the inquiry into Jackson Pollock’s oeuvre by Richard Taylor has also informed the work. There is a familiarity with patterning and shadows that references the iconography of the photographic negative as well as the repetition of wallpaper—often a benign and innocuous component in a room or space. In our perception the patterns that exist in the nature are frequently relegated to the role of backdrop. By isolating the patterns that exist in nature, that which in context may be overlooked and disregarded, the viewer is afforded a new point of view and an appreciation of the textures and fractal patterning of self-similarity that while often relegated to the role of backdrop resonates deeply within our experience of the world. Both the Drift and Shadow Map series were realized plein-aire and in real-time as the position of the sun, clouds and the wind impacted their making and material handling—a mapping system of that moment in time. My interest in pattern can be traced back to my work as a textile designer in New York City in the 1970’s while my 30+ years of working in Oregon has seen the work evolve conceptually, materially and rooted uniquely in a Northwest mystical tradition.