COLLABORATIVE ARTWORK

Triptych: Locating, Collecting, Firing - Mixed Media on Wood Panel - 36” x 36”- 2022

We are developing a two-person art exhibition for the Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME, in September 2025. The exhibition is central to the Intersecting Ecologies project, which will include arts-based community activities related to one of the largest uninhabited islands in the Northeast, Sears Island.

The triptych Locating Collecting Firing represents the beginning of a joint effort to create meaning by juxtaposing and layering disparate imagery and techniques. Meaning-making is individual and influenced by social, cultural, and familial conditions. To preserve individual perspectives, we each created a panel on our own. Then, we worked together on the middle panel to move toward aesthetic convergence.

This piece languages complex relationships to past, present, and future phenomena. Additionally, it addresses personal, social, and environmental themes such as changing ecologies, land preservation, emotive landscapes; clean energy, the logistics of memory, and the tension between autonomy and connection.

It was shown in the Balance/Imbalance exhibit at the L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, and featured in the Union of Maine Visual Artists Maine Arts Journal in the summer of 2023.

We are also developing individual work related to the project and welcome studio visits.