Moonbather

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30” x 24”

Inks, charcoal, oil pastel, and embroidery thread on linen

This piece was pure experiment. I began with a drenched piece of loose-knit stretched linen canvas and went through a few rounds of applying inks and letting gravity move them around on the substrate, sometimes pouring more water across the surface to move the inks around in bulk. As the linen began to dry and I built in a watery landscape, thinking about how colors and edges run together when a scene is lit only by moonshine. Charcoal, embroidery thread, and oil pastels came in towards the end to define the key shapes, landing a moonbather on the shore as the quiet observer of a serene night alone on a river.