Stacks Image 107
This series of glass boxes has been an ongoing project of mine for many years. Each box is completely sealed, intensifying the sense of tension that comes when access is denied. The works explore my way of drawing within the physical context of the objects contained inside. Most of the boxes are multi-media; the drawings—executed on the reverse side of the glass—incorporate acrylic color, oil stick, precious leaf, beeswax, cloth, and India ink.
The boxed Environments function as exercises in composition. Some are surreal, combining vessel forms with remnants one might encounter in a glass studio. Each box is intended to be enigmatic, suggesting an open-ended, dreamlike narrative. At times, they resemble locked museum cases preserving artifacts of lost cultures. In this way, simple everyday objects—when sealed behind glass—take on a sense of value and mystery never originally intended for them. While the viewer may first be drawn to the central object within the box, they soon discover the true “canvas”: the surface of the glass itself.