Indications of Recovery

Disruptive Surrender

Abstraction allows for a broader interpretation of an artwork's context. Disruptive Surrender is a reaction to being diagnosed with cancer and subsequent chemotherapy. Along with surfacing: 62+4, an earlier photographic interpretation of my experience, Disruptive Surrender is an off-kilter world that swirls with unknowns while simultaneously marking the tests and procedures that became routine, the minutia involved in tracking and measuring a disease. These artworks are a continuous process seeking a physical and mental equilibrium. They may create an entirely different reaction in the viewer, which is equally valid.

Oil on paper, charcoal, gesso, graphite, water soluble crayon, RF paint stick 40" x 53" 2019

Surfacing: 62 + 4

A surface can be a protection, a façade, a layer, or a texture. Surfacing from the depths involves calibration and re-calibration until the body reaches equilibrium. So how does a person react to, absorb, and succumb to the treatment used to affect one's being on a cellular level? Created from images of icy, frosted surfaces on a window to dander collected from the skin residue of pets, the collaged images are a reaction to being diagnosed with cancer and the subsequent chemotherapy regime – surfacing: 62+4 is a continuous process seeking a physical and mental equilibrium.

Surfacing:  62 + 4       
Archival pigment print, 36" X 48"
2017

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Surface Evidence 2017

Surface Transitions 2015

Surface Debris 2017