ABODE
I’m interested in houses, homes and structures that house people, insects and spirits. What is the meaning of home and house. A house can feel like a cage that needs to be escaped but it can also be a safe place of comfort.
I’m having trouble with a title for the painting to the right if you are on a laptop (the first painting after this blurb if you are on a phone.) It has a great feeling of freedom, leaving a house and going out to explore. Will she come back or move on? Is she happy to finally escape? The house is also foundationless, drifting in the night sky.
Untitled, Acrylic
Surrounded but Still Standing, Watercolor and Gouache
Symbiosis, Acrylic and Oil Pastel, 3’4” X 5’
In this large painting of a tree, are the spirit people housed by the tree, trapped by the tree, or holding the tree up? Sometimes one can feel all three emotions at the same time about an abode.
Little Boxes, Paper and Model Figures, 17” X 21”
In my folded and pop-up paper and architectural reliefs, home takes on an abstract and repetitive nature, similar to developments and suburbia. The title comes from that great ditty, Little Boxes, by Malvina Reynolds.
Close-ups
Concerning the Man on the Roof, Acrylic and model figure
Unstable homes, Acrylic and model figures.
Close-up, Unstable Homes