Triage – 4×4 Series

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slides – Glass – 4x4x3 inches – 2016

Detail

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Detail

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Glass – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Medical Gauze – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – Piano Hammer – Glass – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slides – Cinders – 4x4x3 inches – 2016

Detail

Wood Panel – Encaustic – Bone – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Thread – Glass – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slides – Cinders – 4x4x3 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slides – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x3 inches

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Medical Gauze – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Cinders – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slides – Glass – 4x4x3 inches – 2017

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – Piano Hammer – Glass – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Cinders – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Medical Gauze – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Detail

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Wood Panel – Encaustic – Bone – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – Medical Gauze – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Detail

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – Medical Gauze – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2017

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Cinders – Ash – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Glass – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Thread – 4x4x1 inches – 2016

Cradled Wood Panel – Encaustic – 35mm Slide – Medical Gauze – Thread – 4x4x1 inches

Triage – 4×4 Series
This work is an examination of a specific medium, slide film and the cultural DNA embedded in the timeframe captured during its manufacturing life span, roughly from 1935-2010. A component of this work is also an investigation into my ancestry and an analysis of my genetic data.

Random slides have been gathered from estate sales and the personal family of the artist, the slides are secured to a wood panel and enveloped with encaustic, shards of broken glass, cinders and ash debris. Some of the slides are sewn into a cotton gauze bandage and incorporated into various combinations with other materials. A red thread is used as a symbolic reference to bloodlines and other cultural mythologies.

I learned how to process film in a traditional darkroom at a point in time when the negative was held as sacrosanct. To destroy the film was the ultimate act of desecration. A suicide. It is difficult to escape this sentiment. Every incision with the blade feels like a terrible violation, a betrayal, an act of defiance or one of surrender.