size variable | watercolor on hand-cut paper, lighting, thread | 2012 | Solo Exhibition | Tillman Art Museum | Bangor, Maine
Lily Ponder is an exhibition designed specifically for the Tillman Art Museum.
Having just completed a year-long commission for Harry Winston Jewelers that required thousands of lilies to be hand-cut, my spontaneity for new work became tainted by the omnipresent memory of the previous year’s commission. Lilies began emerging in new hand-cut paper pieces. Indulging the compulsion, I let these lily formations flourish and meander through the work — this time tempered by tangles of leafy vines and spindly armatures.
Networks of white-paper silhouettes are beset by a substructure of evaporated watercolor. Glittering gold streamers meander upward toward the sky, providing symbiotic attachment for the adjacent silhouettes. Large cut paper sheets are suspended from the ceiling by colored thread. The resulting three-dimensional environment is illuminated by colored light fixtures interspersed throughout, allowing the multiple paper pieces to inter-relate as a unified whole.