Beneath The Surface

What looks abstract is actually a place. These are surfaces of the earth, seen from an impossible angle. 

This series is about hidden geographies -- landscapes at a scale no human was meant to stand in. I overhauled my practice for this body of work: the smaller pieces are 5 x 7 on watercolor paper in acrylic and mixed media. The larger works build on the same idea in acrylic and layered collage, with more physical depth and scale. 

Each piece is a close-up perspective on earth that most people never see:

-Soft Submersion drops you underwater, where light falls differently and everything moves slower

-Tangled Roots takes you to that hidden place in the dirt where a tree's roots find moisture and hold on

-Rising From Below is volcanic force pushing through rock, or water cracking its way up from underneath

-Unseen Forces shifts the perspective completely - blades of grass become a forest when you're small enough to run through them

These aren't abstractions. They're places on this planet that we walk over every day without ever seeing.