Lost In Time

As Seen In:

• “Beneath Strange Rocks” at Sugarwall Gallery, January 2025

Lost In Time II

Completed as part of the There Are Layers Here You’re Not Considering series, “Lost In Time I” and “Lost In Time II” both incorporate the strong shapes of the rest of that body of work: rocks/crystals, hexagons, and mist spirits with something in each of them that imply these places are inhabited. The staircase and pomegranate in the first, and the little houses built into the crystal structure in the foreground of the second.

If seen as landscapes, the hexagons in the sky don’t make much sense, however. Instead, I prefer to see these as dreamscapes. They are constructed places, rather than purely natural ones, and comment on the ways memory and dreams are often considered immutable and not subject to outside interference. While we don’t really know what dreams are, why we have them, or what they are made of, our unconscious dreaming minds are just as vulnerable to propaganda as our waking minds. Memory too has the ability to be torn, altered, falsified, and colonized.

We protect our dreams and our memories by reminding ourselves what is real. Inspiration is real. Rocks are real. Love is real. And even being worn down by time cannot change the realness of these essential elements.

Materials:

• cradleboard

• acrylic spray paint primer

• gold watercolor ground

• watercolor

• white gouache

• china marker