American Time

American Time was created during a residency at Ucross in Wyoming.  The series presents an intersection of Asian cultural and architectural motifs against the open expansiveness of the American West. 

The works blur notions of physical place and culture.  Shimmering pearlescent and saturated neon colors, drawn from symbolic hues of Asian religious traditions, create a physical vibration against the empty background space.

Further obscuring issues of place and culture, the works are titled after remote American western towns, such as Quartz Site or Diamondville, names bearing their own palimpsests, oral histories and varied provenances of origin. Irradiated by an unrelenting desert sun, disparate worlds are linked and questioned, one’s place in the world is both established and dislodged. 

each work: acrylic on paper, unique silkscreen; 40” x 26”