Serena Buschi


	As an American with Northern Italian and South Asian Indian heritage, I have referenced varied cultural rituals, colors and ornamentation that have been so much a part my experience. Questions and subsequent reading and investigation on the subjects of religion, science and nature as well as many philosophical conversations with my father have had a particularly strong influence in my work. In the context of my work, patterns found in nature, scientific and mathematical laws of nature pertaining to the physical world and the possiblity of its relationship to the metaphysical have been the metaphors I use to represent the idea of the observer as creator of illusions, structures set up in order to have some command over nature, to organize it in some way. I employ various media concentrating on the use of encaustic or cold wax, oil, dry pigment, glass, collage, flower petals and enamel to create intricately patterned and layered works that reference the natural world, materials used in ritual practice in both the world of worship and the world of science as they are understood through methods of measure and pattern. I also employ various materials toward installation as it suits my voice for a particular idea.