Resilience
Solo Exhibition
12-22 October 2021
Crossley Gallery
Sarasota, FL, 34234
www.crossleygallery.com
Because of layered leaves and decomposition,
solid ground is found, fungi bloom, and branches once again are alive.
It can be said that here time rewinds for lives to relive.
In the middle of the North Georgia Mountains, forests thrive, are demolished, and then live again.
The red mud feeds the trees with water drizzled from above, whether rain or drops of tears.
It can also be said that time is the breath that passes on from one to another; breath by breath, light to leaf, and from the tiniest to the entirety. As humans count for years passing by, the ground thickens with branches of the dead.
Nothing is ending.
To Trace the Tears
2021
Paper, Balsa Wood, Tissue, Pine Oil
15 x 9 x 2’ 6’’
Hundreds of years ago, in the North Georgia Mountains, many perished and decomposed along the trail of tears. After over a century of logging and deforestation, the thick forest was replanted by the hands of the locals. Mycelium expands and fungi blooms, time distorts and
repeats.
Breath
2021
Chinese Ink on Polyester, Soil
3’ 24’’ x 3’ 34” (Floor, 3’ x’3’)
Two scenes of branches in the forest and the sun gaps between leaves, hand-painted on the studio's patio.
Square Inch Habitants
2021
Cyanotype on paper
3” x 6’ 1” (74 pieces)
A collection of cyanotypes, imprinted with found insects and plants around the studio.
Reminisces
2021
Ink on Tracing Paper
14 x 17” (5 pieces)
A set of daily ink sketches of the forest in front of the studio, a process of tracing branches and leaves with eyes and hands.
Woven Mud
2021
Mud on Paper
3’ 4’’ x 2’ 6”
Mud painted on papers, shredded, and woven into a new painting.