work > cantos for the anthropocene: 1-21 (2017)

Cantos for the Anthropocene is a series of 46 works. All rectilinear layered forms. All but one wall mounted forms. All but several titled by number only. Mostly, they were my wordless responses to vanishment in all its forms: extinction, genocide, habitat destruction, biosphere collapse. The vanishment of kindness. Lamentations.

slow violence (washi paper, ink, pastels, steel; 17 x 96 x 4")

slow violence (detail) (washi paper, ink, pastel)

cantos 1-3 (lead, mixed media on gessoed paper)

canto 1 (lead, mixed media on gessoed paper; 30 x 30 x 1.5")

cantos 4-7 (washi paper, ink, pencil, plaster; 23 x 39 x 1.5" )

canto 7 (detail) (washi paper, ink, pencil, plaster)

cantos 8-11 (plaster, refired glass with gold leaf and tissue, pigment, nails; 13.5 x 11 x 3" )

canto 10 (detail) (plaster, refired glass with gold leaf and tissue, nails, pigment)

cantos 11 - 13 (lead, horsehair; 66 x 30 x 5")

cantos 12 - 13 (detail)

cantos 15 - 16 (lead, horse hair, steel bolt; 80 x 15 x 22")

cantos 15-16 (detail)

Aleppo (muslin, plaster, red iron oxide, pencil, pigments, cold wax, horse hair, wood; 112 x 32 x 35")

Aleppo (detail)

Aleppo (detail)

Aleppo (detail)

depleted uranium (plaster, washi paper, ink, pencil, pigments, steel; 27 x 49 x 1.5")

depleted uranium (detail)

extinction (plaster, washi paper, ink, pencil, pigments, steel; 27 x 37 x 1.5")

extinction (detail)

cantos 18 - 21 (lead, wax, wire; 28 x 53 x 2)

canto 21 (detail)