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The series Hunting for the Right Words is about communication. Through the written and typed word, through speaking and creating. I use the central metaphor of the spider, who patiently and fiercely hunts for her prey with self created webs and natural agility. So do we spin words together and pounce upon them, or throw them like weapons. This series incorporates fragments of book pages and references the powerful threads of the internet. Each painting in the series features a specific, realistically painted spider species. The little Marbled Orbweaver, Araneus marmoreus, has a range of jewel-like colors and sports these striking markings. It is found across North America and Europe.

Animating my art are two desires: to illustrate myth- images that suggest dreams and stories from the collective stream of consciousness, and to keep an ambiguous familiarity with mortality, that mystifying and often terrifying essence of ourselves, where celebrating life and embracing the equal reality of death entwine. The mix of collage and oil paint is a way for me to assemble an idea out of disparate parts, partly expressed through its process. Collage is a process of collision and re-creation. I appreciate rough, cut edges, the feel of different papers, the build-up of oil paint strokes and ridges. Photos in our media and daily life are an integral part of how we communicate information, ideas, and emotions. Incorporated into...