Snow Drift is made with acrylic paint and salt on raw canvas, then covered with a primer and a monoprinted layer of paint transfered from a plastic bag. Details are added with oil pastel and from flakes of the plastic transferred during the monoprinting process.

Snow Drift 
2024
acrylic, salt, pigment, primer, LDPE, oil pastel on raw canvas
67" h x 65" w x 1.5" d
(170 cm x 165 cm x 3.5 cm) 

About the Snow Drift Series

While creating my Indigo spring series, I laid garbage bags on the ground to protect my studio floors. These garbage bags recorded each spill of paint, every experiment from paintings that made it into The Narrow Road to the Deep North series and the ones that didn’t.

The trash bags protected the floor as intended and — unexpectedly — transferred themselves onto the back of some of my paintings. I found this to be a rather poetic metaphor for the hidden systems of support propping up our lives, a metaphor for how ideas spread from one body to the other, a metaphor for the histories we all carry behind our surface. Though I explored widely this summer with materials, colors, and techniques, I knew then my next series would explore this accidental discovery.

The Snow Drift series tells the story of what we value and what we discard. It tells the story of my personal history and artistic discovery. It exposes what often stays hidden.