Earth, glue, insufficient rain, ink, blood, dust, spit and muck/paper ‘Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever…’* but what place hath reflection ‘in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is’**? *Melville ** Psalms 63:1 A series of individual life vests drawn in blood and ink on fields of cracked earth. The images are faint, painted with diluted washes that seep into and are swallowed up by the dirt ground. When viewed together the individual images seem to dissolve, emerge and evaporate again as a hallucination, mirage or apparition. Deserts and other arid lands are often conducive to the visionary. These representations become a catalog of promises, of unobtainable assistance or elusive rescue, all overwhelmed by the physicality of the dried mud.

Date: 01/01/1999
Dimensions: 42x31 inches each