Starting in January I will have two pieces on display at the Susquehanna Museum of Art as part of their exhibition about the use of found objects in fine art. Recently completed, the works are modeled on Catholic reliquaries and include miniature drawings of sunflower seeds and collected natural materials.
The sunflower seeds were handed out at a close friend’s memorial service to celebrate her life. I began drawing them in the winter of 2019 attempting to render them as realistically and as small as I feasibly could. The drawings are ornately framed and affixed to boxes inset with mother of pearl. Each box contains an object which was significant to my grieving process. One box holds the dried petals from the bouquet of sunflowers I bought to remember my friend, the other holds soil from the garden at her house and a casting of one of the seeds from her funeral.
“After the Blossoms Faded”; charcoal on paper, sunflower petals, brass box and frame; 2019