Printed on archival, 100% cotton Hahnemühle Museum Etchings paper.

Limited edition run of 50. Each signed and numbered by the artist.

8x10" (paper dimensions only; print comes unframed and un-matted).

Original: watercolor and ink on Arches cold-press paper, 2020.

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CONCEPT:

Clouds began appearing in my work in 2020 with the onset of Covid-19 lockdown measures. We all entered what I call "floating time,” and with no punctuation, with days dribbling and bleeding into one another, I wasn't much interested in committing concrete objects to the page. It didn't feel relevant. I felt untethered, unmoored, foggy and suspended midair. I wasn't processing things and didn't know quite what I thought or felt any given day. In my relationships with other people, too, I felt cloud-like: the way we couldn't touch, the feeling of being see-through, or somehow not physically solid. And so: I began painting clouds.

My style favors hard lines, so though I am drawn to clouds for their transience and transparency, their inability to be tethered or harnessed or even touched, visually I needed to find a way to say that with clear, firm lines. No cottony, barely-there wisps of clouds for me.

I settled on a stylized version of clouds inspired by Persian illuminated manuscripts, which allowed me to communicate foggy wisps communicated in firm lines. These are symbols of ephemera, of un-graspable time, of see-through people.

The red thread—red to represent permanence, thread a symbol of resourcefulness and connection-- seeks to bind and to connect us with others in the midst of all this floating.