Playdate Alone Painting

This new series is multidisciplinary as the paintings integrate drawing, painting, photography, wood burning, and collage making. We have found ourselves in a state of global isolation due to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. This unprecedented degree of social isolation has made people hungry for connections – especially children. Such circumstances have inspired me to create a new series of paintings highlighting children's isolation as an effect that can be shared and, perhaps, overcome through compassionate and collective, social engagements. In my work entitled "Playdate alone," the subjects are exclusively children. They connect viewers with the iconography of authenticity, simplicity, happiness, and hope as values that are often missing in adulthood. I make marks on wooden canvas by burning it into its layered surface, using electric elements. Using wood as a canvas material that originates from nature, is meant to convey the unique individual personalities and how each piece relates to the whole – as can be psychologically seen during playdates. Layering and delayering the surface of wood through the act of burning allows me to convey the complexity and ambiguity of existence.

Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:22 W x 15.5 H x 2 D in

Number of Panels:2

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