KINDLING

After the 2020 wildfires close to my home in Napa County, I created a new body of work entitled Kindling. This series of collages is composed of textile fragments coupled with torn, stained and printed papers, evocative of dry, brittle materials that are easily combustible. Some of the works are composed of piles of these materials sewn together into abstracted landscapes. Others are reductive in nature, stripped down to two or three components reminiscent of the charred bits and fragile remainders left in the aftermath of loss and destruction.

Collage with textile fragments on paper