The Indigo Flow Series
Initially, a series of silver ink gel pen drawings on Indigo pastel paper was the source for my paintings Indigo Flow 1-5
My intention was to cover the canvases with a flat and even indigo background to draw on. The paint pushed me in another direction, and while keeping the indigo color and the silver ink gel pen the process became a response to the intensity of my recent travel to New Zealand.
I thought of the destruction and eruption of islands, the planting of Redwood tree seedlings from California, the invasion of imported animals at the expense of the native fauna, and the erasure and reemergence of Maori cultures.
Precariousness and upheaval through natural phenomenon and human intervention translated on the canvas by erasing, recreating and drawing around shapes evocative of of land, plants, animals, fossils, some emerging and other hidden under the surface.
Indigo Flow 1 (Upstream). 2023
Acrylic and Silver Ink Gel Pen on Canvas.
50” x 40”
Indigo Flow 2 (Sea Horse). 2023
Acrylic and Silver Ink Gel Pen on Canvas. 50” x 40”
Indigo Flow 3 (Bones at the Bottom of the Ocean). 2023
Acrylic and Silver Ink Gel Pen on Canvas. 50” x 40”
Indigo Flow 4 (Cliffs). 2023
Acrylic and Silver Ink Gel Pen on Canvas.
50” x 40”
Indigo Flow 5 (Grotto). 2023
Acrylic and Silver Ink Gel Pen on Canvas.
50” x 40”