The writers in my life.
In April I worked on two abstracted family portraits.
They are part of the family “series” which has little, if anything, to do with the figure. Instead they are about past, present, and future. They attempt to capture the historical self — in these cases being an administrator and manager of information, calendars, policies, and people — combined with the dreamer self — managing words on a page as a writer of fiction, in one case, and poetry in the other.
They are about complicated lives and complex notions. They are about using family history and past experience to create something new. They are about the search for threads of connection and building the structures to support them. They are about balance, joy, and using observations to construct new narratives.
They are about looking for patterns where they many not be obvious.
And most of all they are about color and light because that best represents my family and how I feel when I’m sharing space with them.
