Gallery > Ghost of the Games

Hex Path
encaustic on wood
15" x 27"
2012
$1400
The Coins
encaustic on wood
17" x 14"
2012
$850
Temenos
encaustic on wood
28" x 28"
2013
$2750
Picking up Gold and Silver
encaustic on wood
21" x 19"
2013
$1400
Prisoner's Dilemma
encaustic on wood
18" x 15"
2014
Serengeti
encaustic on wood
24" x 24"
2014
$2050
Skittle
encaustic on wood
24" x 24"
2014
Phare
encaustic on wood
18" x 15"
2015
Umngane
encaustic on wood
25" x 10"
2015
$900

Since 2014, my geometrically structured paintings have explored form, balance, pattern, movement, and 2-to-3-dimensional play. During this period, the ghost of the games continued to intrude, haunt, and guide. Questions of cumulative stratagy, rule, response, sequence, addressed when designing (or playing on) morris or backgammon, still took me through a project from beginning to completion. Each move, as in a game of chess, gave the next something to deal with, as the painting increased in complexity and resolution.

Nostalgia for my games caught me placing 'men' - floating, wandering circles and triangles - around the painting, articulating the larger design and seeming to look for their way 'home'.