Volunteers , Assemblage ( Chinese cabinet door , powdered pigment , encaustic medium on canvas ), 32 x 33 inches , 2010
Powdered pigment is , of course , a kind of dust . And , so , in this work , there is another implicit reference to the state of human existence . “ All go to the same place ; all come from dust , and to dust all return .” In working with these layers of wax and powdered pigment , I find I am drawn in on many levels : to the images themselves - like truths preserved in time , as well as to the way each overlay shifts my perception of that which has come before .