These paintings are made of stones, flowers, and wild waters: materials that hold the earth’s memory.

 

Each round shape in this work is an ecosystem in flux, in crisis, in homeostasis. The painting is their ecosystems linked.

 

The circles can also be seen as stone-shapes; stones are the material embodiment of Jewish mourning.

 

The circles are also zeros: an infinity, a site where our capacity for logic fails and something else takes hold.

 

I’m trying, in this work, to love outward, backward and forward in time and space, to make home-places for my ancestors and future ancestors. Sometimes it feels like it works.