Blood Bunny Painting

This painting is from a series made on an old household linens - items that once were wrapped around limbs, used as delicate shields from the sun, former catchers of crumbs and bodily fluids. Aside from this previous utilitarian life, these cloths have traveled from their homeland and ventured in and out of studios, solstices, sands, snow, and showings. They have caught ghostly traces of portraits of their former owners, spills of paint from other projects, and vibrant depictions of the floral and fauna surrounding the lands that they have visited. Inspired by process work and cave paintings, they are a collection of their own individual experience as well as my own personal journey with them, detailing personal predilections and journaling the passage of time both for the artist and the material. The work originated in Montauk, these large linens were part of ‘Leviathan: The Montauk Portrait Project’. They then traveled to Vermont Studio Center metamorphosing into ‘Deer & Artemis,’ and afterwards were installed in a former horse pasture for winter solstice in memorial to a lost patriarch. The rain and snow from this exhibition washed the original image away. Then they were printed gyotaku style with fish from Montauk’s waters and brought to Vermont for exhibition once again ­ this time on industrial shipping containers at Burlington Beer. The works then traveled to England for residency in Somerset at 42 Acres, where the countryside’s greenery has taken hold of the imagery. My recent practice of tracing people’s hands and incorporating them into composition of the work ­ a move that aligns itself with pluralism, collective authorship, and is a direct reference to cave art, specifically the first form of painting ­ the hands of the other artist residents at 42 Acres have been placed on the works. Finally, the works returned to Montauk for waxing and final touches before reaching their natural conclusion.

Painting:Acrylic on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:60 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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