Collection Preview—Earth Stories
For a long time now I’ve held on to a collection of vintage watercolor paper. It’s moved with me to every state I’ve lived in, finding its home in one of my many boxes.
I’m never one to keep things, but I knew one day this paper would hold the stories I didn’t quite have the words for yet. Just in time for the holidays, these pages filled with the captivating story of the landscape and the color this earth holds inside.
Over the years, I’ve collected stacks of notes and landscape marks. Together, they slowly formed an abstract representation of the landscape—that is, the landscape abstracted into simple shapes, lines, and words. I carefully kept this beauty while archiving the raw terrain. Slowly, it grew into a collection of work called Earth Stories where each painting shares the complex narratives of the landscape.
Painted on sacred paper with natural earth colors, each piece is accompanied by its own mediation on the natural world, an offering of the earth. It’s fascinating to watch this body of work grow—letting it guide me through each new season. When a small grouping is ready, I slowly make them available in my gallery shop.
Launching exclusively @thehandmadepopup, and online market, on Nov. 1-30.
