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 it simultaneously marks the tests and procedures that become routine, the minutia involved in tracking and measuring an 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.
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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, a texture. Surfacing from the depths is a process of calibrating and re-calibrating until the body reaches equilibrium. 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 frosted ice-reactions on a window to dander collected from the skin surface of my pets, the collaged images are a reaction to being diagnosed with cancer and subsequent chemotherapy – 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
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Surface Transitions 2015
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Surface Debris 2017