Lately I’ve been exploring the geography of imagined geological spaces, stone horizons and underground caverns made of wasp nest paper, the melting ice lake of the heart, while listening to a sound from far, far away. All of this occurs in a candle light phosphorscent glow of comfort.

I’m enjoying mixing many ingredients such as ash, stucco and walnut ink creating unusual textures reminescent of weather and nature

Jill in her studio

Curious and Curiouser

“The job of art is to break something and make it weirder”

-Amy Silman

Divisions of space

landscape proportions,

by quarters, by thirds,

or by above and below

The known sense of background and foreground

Shapes with quirky qualities.

Suspended, or lifted on stilts

often awkwardly tilted

Connected to others

by a pole or intersection

Moons rising in halves, never full

Eggs developing a flat edge over time

Conversing by touch or travel.

Divided while remaining whole

Atmosphere resulting from simplifications and submersions

Allusions to boats, sails, vessels, cups, lights, stools, eggs, portals, razor blades, containers, domes, architecture and modern furniture

clutter calmed, sacrifice made,

history created by submersion

The MA (Japanese Buddhist term for emptiness) sings silently

locating the place of rest.

black and straight connections, but also submerged, vertical or diagonal.

painted with a brush, pallet knife, pencil or crayon.

Alternating crisp edges and smeared connections

Spontaneous drawing travels desire lines and crosses boundaries.

Where balance and imbalance, geometric and organic agree.

Begin with black

then move to three grays,

khaki, olive & ocher with a little peek of orange

Opaque spread like icing, or thin and glazed across

The color contributes to the MA.

Mist and mystery materialize.

The players speak the language

Diebenkorn wrote to himself on a painting…”Take a look Dick, this is the formula.”

It all begins with an idea.