Dogs and Decoys

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These works are a continued investigation of eco-feminist physical and psychological relationships; mirroring power and care in the experiences of women and the environment. These works all explore beauty and destruction, and the way paint color and gender can be an asset or disadvantage in navigating the abuse of power.

El Rey, a study of light and shadow, depicts a relatively mundane path view. As with most days, we move through our lives failing to slow down enough to appreciate a blue shadow creeping across orange sand, in the same way we also fail to fully perceive the people and situations that surround us. Here, a King Snake, known for consuming some of the most venomous snakes in our local environments, Copperheads and Rattlesnakes, merge effortlessly within the view.

Rouge (12) examines resilience, and becomes a strategy of survival, revealing natural vulnerabilities, illusions, expectations, and exploitations. A flock of decoy ducks, each painted in a slightly shifting shade of pink/red lipstick colored auto paint, reflects the imbalance of dominance, safety, conformity, survival, and perseverance experienced by nature and women. 

Strokes of the perfect shade of white house paint, Spanish Lace, Smoky White, Mourning Dove, hover over canyon trails in the Casper tryptich, reflecting tenuous shifts in the value of space. 

Wildflowers reflect on the shape of ecology. While the back of the works are gilded gold leaf and marked with coded construction utility symbols denoting excavation and removal.