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Event Horizon Painting
United States
Painting, encaustic on Beeswax
Size: 30 W x 60 H x 2 D in
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About The Artwork
I love the process of making encaustic art. I start by melting natural beeswax with tree resin into a hot wax medium. I mix natural dry pigments into the medium to create colored wax. My palette is a pancake griddle set on low that keeps the colored wax medium liquid enough to paint with. I use large, hake brushes to paint several layers of hot wax medium onto the prepared wood substrate. I then use a blowtorch to fuse each layer of wax to the preceding layer to form a matrix of wax that is between 1/4 and 1/2-inch thick on the board. While the wax on the surface is still warm and pliable, I use a metal dental tool to begin carving marks into the surface. The marks are deconstructed letterforms that I use to transcribe an internal monologue I am having as I work across the surface. It is a form of engraved poetry. I write from left to right. The marks make words in my head; the words in my head make marks on the board. It is a tactile meditation. It is a symbolic conversation. It is a celebration of form and meaning that no one else needs to understand in order to enjoy. These glyph paintings want to be touched and felt rather than just be viewed. In fact, two of the glyph paintings are owned by people who were blind since birth. This piece was featured in a show at the Loveland Museum of Art last summer that highlighted the work of four encaustic artists from Colorado.
Details & Dimensions
Multi-paneled Painting:encaustic on Beeswax
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 60 H x 2 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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My paintings attempt to gain a more complete understanding about the forces —both seen and unseen— at work in the world. At times, I like to explore the simple shapes and textures that populate our visual landscapes. Other times, I try to trace the journey that light takes across the surface of things. Sometimes, I like to observe the forms that repeat in the natural world, forming the vocabulary of a rudimentary visual language that we all recognize and understand: I love the way certain clusters of shapes begin to form a face. How a bit of geometry can hint at a sentient life form hidden within. How we search for certain patterns that we recognize as alive and others we imagine to be somehow inanimate. All the things we know without knowing we know. My work hopes to give visual voice to the ghosts of energy and activity that have created objects in the world, the blurred path of busy hands, the electric spark of intention, the tangled threads of thought and feeling and creation. My greatest delight is in tracking the forces that are constantly at work on all things-- both from the inside and the out. All these things leave traces, and art, in some of its best moments, outlines, highlights, honors those complicated and miraculous paths.
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