Strata: A Record of Time and Disruption - Solo Exhibition

Location:  ArtSpace Gallery, Black Hawk College, Moline, IL 

Exhibition Dates:  November 3 - December 12, 2025

Reception and Artist Talk:  Thursday, December 11, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

This body of work uses the ancient medium of encaustic — a blend of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment — to explore how time, memory, and experience leave quiet traces on our inner landscapes.

Each painting is created through a slow, repetitive process: I apply thousands of small wax droplets, one by one, to the surface. The process is deliberate and meditative — an act of attention and endurance. While some areas follow this rhythmic pattern, others are scratched, marking moments of disruption or shift.  The surface becomes a kind of terrain — a tactile record of time, attention, and transformation.

The title, Strata, is drawn from geology: layers of rock or sediment that build up over time and record the forces that shaped them. I use that idea as a metaphor for human experience — not visible, geological layers, but emotional ones we carry just beneath the surface.

These works invite you to slow down. From afar, you see rhythm and hue - but as you move closer, the textures and evidence of time and touch begin to reveal themselves.

My hope is that you’ll reflect on your own internal layers — what has shaped you, what you’ve let go of, and what remains in quiet accumulation.