Desert Over and Over (2018)

"She was tired of being told she was wrong. Before leaving, she turned to the group and said, ‘I can’t paint your desert, I can only paint mine.’"

Golden Lonely

Roots Run Deeper Than Branches Can Reach

Finding Home in Infinite Spaces

Green Was Always There

Green to Gold

Always Now at Night

It's Okay if the Shadows Don't Match

Are You What I Wish You Were?

Sometimes Comfort Looks Desolate

I Can't Paint Your Desert, I Can Only Paint Mine

Home

Dead of Night

works on paper

#03 Homesick Again and Again

#17 Homesick Again and Again

#20 Homesick Again and Again

Winter Boots

#15 Homesick Again and Again

#13 Homesick Again and Again

#04 Homesick Again and Again

#11 Homesick Again and Again

#27 Homesick Again and Again

#19 Homesick Again and Again

Dream

#05 Mini Desert Painting: Fall

#10 Homesick Again and Again

#05 Homesick Again and Again

#23 Homesick Again and Again

#14 Homesick Again and Again

#25 Homesick Again and Again

Belonging

#03 Mini Desert Painting: Bumblebees

#07 Homesick Again and Again

#01 Mini Desert Painting: Crescent Moon

#12 Homesick Again and Again

Desert Diptych: High Heat (1 of 2)

Desert Diptych: Full Moon (2 of 2)

TOWNS COLLECTION (2021)

Tucumcari

Abiquiu

Jerome

Marathon

Tucson

Installation Views

Desert Over and Over | Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX | September 8-October 6, 2018

SERIES Statement

Some folks don’t find comfort within the structure of a home and family. Faraway destinations can’t provide peace of mind either. Their contentment is only experienced when traveling the road between the two places. Desert: Over and Over is a body of work which explores that in-between space.

While working on a painting project of West Texas’ Chisos Mountains, I was reminded of how much I missed the desert. It made me remember the solitude and vastness that a desert landscape imposes on a person. It is a haunting, comforting, and beautifully sad environment and the perfect example of a place that hovers between the security of home and the freedom of the unknown. It is neither “here” and it isn’t quite “there”.

Most can relate that without the monotonous domestic duties, without the tether of family obligation, without the burdens that a home imposes, there would be no need for escaping down desert dirt roads. And without the harshness and isolation of desert dirt roads, there would be no need for the security and shelter of home.

TOWNS COLLECTION 2021

The Towns Collection revisits the 2018 Desert series in a set of five limited edition prints. Each print image is based on a painting created in 2021 titled after a southwestern town (Tucumcari, Abiquiu, Jerome, Marathon, and Tucson). For purchasing info, visit Artspace111!