Wheelhouse
2024
Oil, acrylic, Gampi, encaustic monotype, sari silk, rope, thread, mirrors
45 x 31
My work is always evolving, I often reinvent past works by cutting into them, reconfiguring, radically shifting, or layering to create something current in my visual lexicon. This work has layers of paint over an old oil painting that had represented the equation of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Both the principle and how I handle these materials speak of the fundamental randomness in all of nature. The net for me references the possibility of being caught up in recurring thoughts, these are the wheels. I consider teachings, lessons learned or not learned, wisdom and folly, history repeating itself, and my conscious awareness of these. I think about thinking as I ask the question “What’s in your wheelhouse”?