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All My Heart
The sgraffito method used to create the images in this series is a surrender to the creative process. This image started as an oil pastel that was then completely covered in black tempera paint, with the hopes that it would reemerge with more character. Through scratching into the shadowy blackness, I reveal the oil pastel below. In this way textures, details, and a more complex image evolves. This process is symbolically meaningful to me and makes the work more potent. It represents the beauty that is found once we have accepted our own discovery process.
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The heart is home to the love, emotion, connection and soul we have in this life. It is a symbolic call to live a heart-led life, aware of our human fragility. I made this piece alongside “Memento Mori” while recovering from Covid in February of 2023. What does it mean to be alive and human? How does our fragile physical existence transcend Death? Through love and the emotional connection we share with others, we live on. The memories of those we love live on in our heart.
With an electromagnetic field that radiates beyond our body, our heart’s power is greatly underestimated. In “Memento Mori” I used the skull to call us to remember Death. In “All My Heart” I use the heart to call us to remember Life, remember Love, and remember our emotional humanity. When hanging these as a pair, I hang one over the other. Sometimes the heart is over the head, sometimes the head is over the heart.
