artwork > 2014-2021

Botox
wax and pigment print on wood
54" x 37"
2018
Sumo Citrus 2
wax and painted cardboard on panel
28" x 31"
2015
Johnny Walker Black
wax and pigment print on wood
48" x 59"
2018
10 Botox Boxes
wax and painted cardboard on wood
35" x 19"
2018
Advanced Glass
wax and painted cardboard on wood
30" x 31"
2015
Do It Best Surge Protector
encaustic and painted cardboard on panel
7 ¾" x 8 ½"
2021
Modern Muse
wax and pigment print on wood
59" x 48"
2019
Funhouse
encaustic and painted cardboard on panel
8" x 9"
2021
Kiss
encaustic and painted cardboard on panel
6" x 7"
2021
Satellite
encaustic and painted cardboard on routered panel
8" x 7"
2021
Sephora Bite
encaustic and painted cardboard on panel
7 ¼" x 10 ½"
2021
Aleve02
wax and painted cardboard on wood
9" x 8"
2018
Lundberg
wax and painted cardboard on wood
14" x 15"
2018
Neosporin04
wax and painted cardboard on wood
8" x 7"
2018
Manner Lemon Filled Creme Wafer
wax and painted cardboard on wood
12" x 11"
2018
Ayr04
wax and painted cardboard on wood
7" x 8"
2018
Choco Biscuit
wax and painted cardboard on wood
10" x 8"
2018
Man Maru (yummy)
wax and painted cardboard on wood
13" x 12"
2018
Aleve03
wax and painted cardboard on wood
7" x 7"
2018
Sensodyne03
wax and painted cardboard on wood
11" x 9"
2017
Refresh Tears
wax and painted cardboard on wood
6" x 7"
2018
Redermic C
wax and painted cardboard on wood
11" x 13"
2014
Fastener Center
encaustic and cardboard box on wood
10 ⅜" x 8 ¼"
2014
Cuatro Pinos Brand 1
encaustic and cardboard box on wood
12 ¼" x 10 ¾"
2014
Leanne
encaustic and cardboard on wood
7 ½" x 9"
2014
Beryl 1
beeswax, paraffin and cardboard on wood
6 ¼" x 8"
2014
GH-69-1
encaustic and cardboard box on wood
6 ¾" x 8 ½"
2014
*1500*
encaustic and cardboard on wood
4 ½" x 4 ½"
2014
Beryl 4
beeswax, paraffin and cardboard on wood
8 ½" x 8"
2014
Dr. Fuhrman DHA + EPA
waxes and painted cardboard box on wood
11.5" x 8.25"
2017
Weil for Origins
waxes and painted cardboard box on wood
7" x 6.25"
2017
Gold's Gym Stress Ball
waxes and painted cardboard box on wood
9" x 15"
2017

I’ve been working with encaustic as a collage agent for over 20 years. For the past 10 years I’ve been using discarded cardboard in conjunction with the wax. Consumerism and its accompanying byproducts, packaging and disillusionment, are the theme of this series. Packaging is not only the refuse of consumerism, but its wrapping, too. The advertising business, rampant in all aspects of our lives, wraps its most base truth (that we need MORE), in glossy, retouched images and implied ideals that are impossible to achieve.

The nature of cardboard is essential to this work. It is malleable, yet always recognizable, offering many modes of presentation. It contains an inherent tension between the organic and the geometric as it begins to break down after being subjected to various processes, with wisps or hints of corrugation often being the last recognizable clue to what I’ve done. With the labels and brands obscured, these wax-buried items become a source of whimisical geometric abstraction.

As I make these pieces, I think about consumerism and waste and the disillusionment these things deal us. I consider these works to be embalmed mementos or time-capsule-like objects, possible future reminders of how casually careless we were with our only earth.