“Untitled (Lexicon of Memory)” is the reference title for this mixed media composition that is a complex layering of time, text, and texture. This piece is a rich tapestry of elements that interweave the artist’s personal photography with collected materials amassed over decades, offering a narrative as deep and varied as history itself.
At the foundation lies a backdrop of vintage book pages, their typography peeking through, hinting at a dictionary or other repositories of knowledge. The presence of these literary fragments suggests a reverence for language and the power of words to encapsulate vast concepts and histories within their definitions.
Boldly contrasting against this scholarly backdrop is the organic imagery: a bird’s foot, delicate tree needles, and abstract natural forms that bring a sense of the living world into the composition. These elements represent the artist’s intimate encounters with nature, a personal cartography of the outdoors captured and preserved over years of exploration and collection.
Incorporated into the visual narrative are photographs taken by the artist, serving as windows to past experiences, fleeting moments arrested in time against the permanence of the printed word. This interplay of ephemeral and eternal is a poignant commentary on the passage of time and the artifacts we leave behind.
For the collector, this artwork is an invitation to delve into a visual dialogue between the man-made and the natural, the momentary and the enduring. It’s an exploration of the ways in which we catalogue our experiences and the impressions they leave upon us, much like the footprints of a bird or the fallen needles of a tree, imprinted upon the earth.
Artwork is on watercolor paper, 12 x 18, signed.
