Body & Cloth

"Messengers", 2007, Oil, 50 x 67 in.

"Limbo", 2008, Oil, 52 x 66 in.

"Return", 2009, Oil, 47 x 72 in.

"Haunted", 1999, Oil, 60 x 50 in.

"Append", 2011, Oil, 26 x 40 in.

"Shrouded", 2009, Oil, 92 x 52 in.

Body and Cloth has been my subject for many years, relating the body to the ancient and lasting human construct of cloth. Cloth has been in concert with bodies, extensions of the body, declaring issues of self, sometimes wrapping with boundaries, and other times with soaring enormity. The metaphorical wrapping, knotting, and loosening are to convey emotional tying up and releasing within and without.