skies 2003-2014
Skies — Into the Deep
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — Clouds and Commerce
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — From Here to There
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — Jet Stream
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — Stratosphere
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — Tail Wind
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — Tail Wind
Spray Paint on Paper
52" x 86", 2014
Skies — Day Moon
Color Pencil and Wax Crayon on Paper
9” x 12”, 2014
Skies — Passing Through Diptych
Color Pencil and Wax Crayon on Paper
9” x 12”, each 2014
Skies — Lost
Color Pencil and Wax Crayon on Paper
9” x 12”, 2014
Skies — Microscape
Color Pencil and Wax Crayon on Paper
9” x 12”, 2014
Skies — Before and After the Storm - Rotterdam
Wax Crayon on Paper
9” x 12”, 2014
Skies — Developing Skies - Rotterdam
Wax Crayon on Paper
9” x 12”, 2014
The Skies paintings and drawings began in 2014 after taking careful notice of our skies and recording from memory occurrences and passages of motion in which I found myself immersed. The large works are made with spray paint on paper and the smaller works are colored pencil and wax crayon on paper. One area of particular interest is how vaporous droplets create form. I wanted to mimic that dynamic activity and directly tap into it by painting vaporous clouds and aircraft trails with vaporous paint, while, at the same time, recording our presence within it through a form of visual poetry.
Form and Function USA Air, May 4, 2003, (downloaded) 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Oil on Acetate
43” x 48”, (charted) 2004
Form and Function USA Air, May 4, 2003 (downloaded) 6:30 - 8 p.m. - detail
Form and Function (Country Interaction) Euro Air, May 23, 2003 (downloaded) 8 - 10 p.m.
Oil on Matte Acetate
36” x 48”, (charted) 2004
Form and Function (Country Interaction) Euro Air, May 23, 2003 (downloaded) 8 - 10 p.m. - detail
Form and Function USA Air, Midwest, May 4, 2003 (downloaded) 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Acrylic on Matte Acetate
15” x 12”, (charted) 2004
Form and Function USA Air, New York JFK segment, May 4, 2003, (downloaded) 6 p.m.
Graphite on Matte Acetate
2” x 2” on 13” x 9” paper, (charted) 2004
Form and Function USA Air, New York JFK segment, May 4, 2003, (downloaded) 6 p.m.- detail
Form and Function USA Air, May 4, 2003, 3 p.m. (downloaded 6 p.m. EST) (West Coast Cross Section)
Acrylic on Matte Acetate
9” x 13”, (charted) 2004
Form and Function USA Air, Night View II, May 4, 2003 (downloaded) 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Acrylic on Matte Acetate
13” x 9”, (charted) 2004
Form and Function USA Air, Night View II, May 4, 2003 (downloaded) 6:30 - 8 p.m. - detail
These works are documentations of air travel with a 90-minute period across the United States
and Europe capturing our ephemeral, cyclical form in the skies. Thousands of arrival flights
were downloaded and color-coded to indicate regional airline carriers, and then were charted
with geographical accuracy.
While on the beach working on my Ocean project mapping the Ocean tides, I noticed I was
seated directly under the flight path from nearby Orange County Airport. Aircraft were overhead
either arriving or departing every few minutes. I began thinking about this constant human
activity and what its form might look like in the skies around the globe everyday as it ebbs and
flows depending on the time of day and time zone.
I devised a mapping system to record this activity by placing a large map of each Continent
(North America and Europe) on the wall and placed the semi-transparent acetate paper on top
and charted each arrival one at a time from its point of origin to its destination.
