Fading Tara

Fading Tara, 24x24, 2016

This piece started as a more traditional portrait I painted a few years back. I'm in the process of reworking many of my older portraits as experiments for a series I've been developing over the past years called, "Traces". This piece started as an oil sketch then was layered with colored waxes, some drawing, and a charcoal impression of an ancient Roman tombstone that I did a rubbing from at the American Academy in Rome. Lots of subtracting.

Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan, encaustic, 36x48, 2016

Christine de Pizan was a woman who supported her family through writing, a rarity in the 1400's. Born in Venice, married at 15 and widowed by 25 Christine took up writing to support her mother and children. She was a philosopher and French poet.

Christine de Pisan: Epistles of Othea
1404-08
Manuscript (Ms. français 606), 360 x 270 mm (folio size)
Bibliothčque Nationale, Paris

Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies
c. 1405
Manuscript (Ms. français 606), 360 x 270 mm
Bibliothčque Nationale, Paris

William Kentridge Drawings in Rome - Elegy of the Ephemeral - A Contemporary Wall Narrative

William Kentridge is brilliant! Here he creates an ephemeral piece titled, "Triumphs and Laments", by erasing the pollution and organic growth along the banks of the Tiber.