Escarpia Laminata Painting

Escarpia Laminata I have been conjuring faces for decades often telling stories originating in my life. And there I sat, in front of my easel, with a small white canvas and wanting to resist the easy way out. I set a palette with a variety of acrylic colors. Now what? Nothing. Notta. Damn it! I picked up a brush loaded with color. Made a quick stroke. And then another and another and… I hated it! I covered the entire canvas in a latex enamel flat white. The white did not completely cover the first layer and colors popped randomly through the white…I loved it! It reminded me of my grandmother making vegetable soup – never the same twice. Ingredients were leftover vegetables from the ice box, noodles, rice. And this little boy watched as colors and textures bubbled to the top. She would pour a little red wine into the soup just for color. And just before serving she would add a ladle full of sour cream. The vegetables transformed into a variety of colors. Sadie Popkins had a name for things she conjured. Mushkaboogie is probably a made up Russian vernacular word. For me, making this body of work is akin to making soup. It should have a little more or a little less of this or that to make it richer: more complex. It’s spontaneous. The whole color layer is painted over with white latex enamel. Once the layers are made there are hardly any adjustments possible. The process accentuates the taste. My dear friend, photographer, and painter Stephen Washington volunteered to help me photograph this collection. He kept asking me what I am going to call the work. Mushkaboogie did not sound right. Towards the end of the afternoon, Stephen handed me an index card with Escarpia Laminata written on it. WORMS! These worms live for upwards of 4,000 years in hollow tunnels found in Baja waters making them the oldest living organisms on the planet.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in

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