2008 Secrets of the Elements 2: The Unfinished Universe
Part 2 followed with another mixture of painting, collage, print, and sculpture. 25 elements brought home the mysteries of an unfolding cosmos. Boron, stuff of ancient stars, washed dishes—and got silly in putty. Silver poured tea for leopards, in London. Chromium spoke in rainbow tongues. Calcium metaled landscapes with a dazzling smile. Tin took the viewer to the secret land of Belerion. Americium was the radioactive lifesaver, in homes from Nome to New York. And Zinc was Casanova’s metal of desire.
Iridium 77
Archival Pigment Print on Vinyl Mounted on Aluminum
20 x 32 inches
Bright Iridium
coats the planet and twilight
comes for sauruses
Lithium 3
Encaustic and Oil on Clayboard
18 x 24 inches
I am my north pole
south of my south flying east
west all directions
up and down and down and out
without my Lithium stone
Osmium 76
Graphite and Oil Pastel on Birch
18 x 24 inches
Sharper by a nose
Osmium remembers words
to tunes and prints from
fingers even where it was
the moment the earth was born
Polonium 84
Archival Pigment Print on Duratrans Mounted on Lightbox
24 x 18 inches
Madame Curious
and Daughter found me fatal
deadlier by trills
than all the cyanide in
their native Polonium
Silver 47
Archival Pigment Print on Vinyl Mounted on Aluminum
30 x 30 inches
In London leopards
stir their tea with silver spoons
most genteel of spots
Tin 50
Archival Pigment Prints on Galvanized Steel and Aluminum Cans with MDF
28 x 36 x 6 inches
Phoenicians set
sail finger to lip on waves
of memory hide
the way to Belerion
and its secret Isles of Tin