Bitter | Sweet
Coffee and sugar, once the purview of only the economic elite, are now so widely proliferated in American culture that anyone can access them. I drink coffee. I eat sweets. You likely do, too.
I'm fascinated, not by the fact that we partake of these commodities, but the manner in which we do–as though a box of chocolates might seal or save a romantic connection, a cookie heal some wound, or that our morning cup-o-jo might shift all forces in the cosmos to work in our favor. We are devotees, and our routines with these products become ritual–both individually and communally.
Many of these works focus on the residue left behind by the consumption of coffee and sugar. Bitter/Sweet construes habitual consumption to be an act of petition, a process of recollection, and an expression of devotion.
I'm fascinated, not by the fact that we partake of these commodities, but the manner in which we do–as though a box of chocolates might seal or save a romantic connection, a cookie heal some wound, or that our morning cup-o-jo might shift all forces in the cosmos to work in our favor. We are devotees, and our routines with these products become ritual–both individually and communally.
Many of these works focus on the residue left behind by the consumption of coffee and sugar. Bitter/Sweet construes habitual consumption to be an act of petition, a process of recollection, and an expression of devotion.
Much
Layers of reclaimed, used industrial coffee filters, and 5x7 inch oil paintings of disposable coffee cups are formed arranged with direct references to Byzantine icons of haloed saints, and ex-voto altars.
Devotion
Gilded disposable coffee cup rests, like a saint, amid illuminated pristine coffee filters.
JUST ONE
For All the Saints
Afterglow
24x36 inch oil painting of crushed disposable coffee cups, piled high.
Confections
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Recipe for Love
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