A collage using papers and wax, a change from the 3D pieces. The work is less intense from a constructing point of view, but the subject title is more whimsical.
Designed for "Please Touch Again" exhibit at Tohono Chul Park Gallery, the piece incorporates many tactile surfaces. It is meant to stimulate even without seeing--by touching.
After many careers: artist, graphic designer, mother, and sales; I've resumed my first love art. Now, retired, I still have the creative urge. I spend half the year in Lake Geneva, WI and half in Tucson, AZ. Both naturally beautiful areas inspire the organic forms, which are found in my work. Encaustic is a medium I can carve, inscribe, build up and color. Its flexibility is both earthy and otherworldly like both locations in which I live. It allows me to connect the geology: the erosions, water and plant life into a sculptural and collage based wax pieces. It is thrilling to again to be creating and exhibiting, to feel joy in my ability and the continuum of my life's consistent effort: art.