This original painting features a pink wooden chair against a pink and orange background that reads like an abstract landscape with a black horizon line. This piece was created by taking two identical paintings on paper, tearing them into strips and piecing them back together to make one large fragmented image of a chair and its dramatic shadow.
This piece is about how difficult transitions, circumstances, and experiences can change us. How we can feel fragmented through hardship, but still whole in the grace we are given.
Viewers always ask, 'Why chairs?' I think chairs are a profoundly beautiful and evocative metaphor for the human experience. I think of them as figures in my work; their arrangements and interactions suggesting relationships, the space, and time between us.
Chairs symbolize stillness and presence. We use chairs to hold space for others. An empty chair can represent a person coming or going. My fascination with chairs evolved during a period of difficult personal experiences that I could not easily solve my way out of. It became evident that my artwork was guiding me to sit with my feelings, to be present with myself and the pain I was experiencing.
My work utilizes symbolism, whimsical palettes, and patterns to create a thought provoking balance between deep human existentialism and profound joy. The interplay of dramatic shadows and bright light represent the passage of time, and the inevitable changes we all go through. My work invite viewers to reflect on connection, transition, and the universal stories within our shared human experience.
Title- Not Quite The Same, But Put Back Together Nonetheless
Size- 23" x 35" image
FRAMED behind glass in a pine frame measuring 27.5” x 40”
Thank you so much for your support!
This original painting features a pink wooden chair against a pink and orange background that reads like an abstract landscape with a black horizon line. This piece was created by taking two identical paintings on paper, tearing them into strips and piecing them back together to make one large fragmented image of a chair and its dramatic shadow.
This piece is about how difficult transitions, circumstances, and experiences can change us. How we can feel fragmented through hardship, but still whole in the grace we are given.
Viewers always ask, 'Why chairs?' I think chairs are a profoundly beautiful and evocative metaphor for the human experience. I think of them as figures in my work; their arrangements and interactions suggesting relationships, the space, and time between us.
Chairs symbolize stillness and presence. We use chairs to hold space for others. An empty chair can represent a person coming or going. My fascination with chairs evolved during a period of difficult personal experiences that I could not easily solve my way out of. It became evident that my artwork was guiding me to sit with my feelings, to be present with myself and the pain I was experiencing.
My work utilizes symbolism, whimsical palettes, and patterns to create a thought provoking balance between deep human existentialism and profound joy. The interplay of dramatic shadows and bright light represent the passage of time, and the inevitable changes we all go through. My work invite viewers to reflect on connection, transition, and the universal stories within our shared human experience.
Title- Not Quite The Same, But Put Back Together Nonetheless
Size- 23" x 35" image
FRAMED behind glass in a pine frame measuring 27.5” x 40”
Thank you so much for your support!