“Bone Orchard”
11 × 14″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
“Bygone Beloved”
8 × 10″
Acrylic on Hardboard
2008
“In the Depths”
11 × 14″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
“The Initiation ”
12 × 14″
Oil on Hardboard
2005
“The Last Emperor of the North Pole”
8.5 × 12″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
“Lunacy”
7.5 × 10″
Acrylic on Hardboard
2008
“Organica”
16 × 20″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
“Stepelia”
11 × 14″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
“Heart Strings”
10 × 13″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
“The Waiting Sisters”
8.5 × 12″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2008
Artist’s Statement – “Bone Orchard”
Trees like bones, skulls like fruit, organs like flowers, branches like veins – where live things die and dead things grow. A place that while very real in what it describes, can only be an impossibility when taken literally by its fanciful phraseology. This seemed to be the very place where my images bore their own fruit, further connotating this strange nowhere-land where the similarities of design in nature, resemblance between all organic things, whether anatomical, botanical, or even zoological, come together. “Somehow in this bone orchard everything is both mortal and immortal, yet all the same thing. And within these similarities lie questions, puzzles, possibilities that form playful nightmares, tricks of the eye – a natural surreality. Yet at the same time it convinces me that there can be no deceitful juxtaposition of imagery in this place and that the surreal is everywhere and all around. Because, really – that’s life.