The paintings are worked quickly with a minimalist approach to paint application and gestural markings. The artist selected a warm palette for rendering the soft human forms, and grounded her work with dark charcoal lines and the black steel of custom frames of Fara’h Salehi, a New York City metal artist. Conceptually, this collection grew out of the artist’s need to see the human body amid the choices we make as life progresses. In accepting ourselves, the body as metaphor, we can move forward with our choices and lives.
Each pose is the subject’s own, as are the facial expressions and body language they’ve chosen to reveal their persona. We see in these small, simple tableaux regular people: unadorned, unapologetic, and distinctive in their differences. Their choices expose the poignant differences among us, keenly marked in every fold, shadow, and
shape we carry. Thus, we are small and large, stretched, scarred and stamped by the manifestations of our decisions and will.