echo)zero(stone
Part of Memory of a Larger MindSeries of 13 paintings · 2022–2024
About the Project
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.
Medium
Natural and synthetic pigments, rainwater, and riverwater on paper
Collections
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (Portland, OR)
North Star Civic Foundation (Portland, OR)
Selected Exhibitions
"Collecting Forward: New Acquisitions from Jewish Artists in Oregon" Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland, OR (2024)
"Tikvah: Hope in the Dark" Art/Lab, Portland, OR (2024)
"In the Flow: Art, Ecology and Pedagogy" Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (2023)
"Landing" Wells College, Ithaca, NY (2023)
"Concentric Dance" Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, WA (2025, with Bradd Skubinna and Josh Hobson)
Selected Press
All Classical Radio Artist Anthology: 40 Creatives of the Pacific Northwest, Featured artist (2025)
"Flowering in Tar" Oregon Humanities, Spring 2025
"How to Build a Kite" Oregon Humanities, Fall/Winter 2021