The great outdoors, indoors

photograph of sea shell "stone" with ink painting as context

When I am working in the studio I like to skip around between the many projects that are underway, and I always enjoy starting new ones.  In between paintings last week I started working on some possible ways of resolving two bodies of work with which I have been unsatisfied.  One is a collection of worm-eaten shells similar to those featured in a previous post.  The other is a set of landscape paintings executed in ink on rice paper.  The shells were objects without a home, and the paintings were homes without an object.  These works in progress (I’ve posted two of them, above) are direct descendants of the photographs that I took in South Carolina this summer, with the significant change being the stage-like shift to a painted backdrop.  I’ve been reworking the photographs digitally, and we will just have to wait to see where they go.