Bird’S Song series (2024/c)

This series was inspired by my trip to Naples, Italy - “A city at the intersection of life and death… fertility and danger… beauty and decay …religiosity and earthniess … all in the shadow of a volatile Mt. Vesuvius .” (Chiara Ambrosio)

I was engulfed in its subterranean and troubled spaces where the dead and the living cohabite, enchanted and taken away from this living existence by encountering breathtaking churches, underground city, catacombs, art, volcanoes, natural beauty.

The series was done on lithographs I made back in the 1990s (past energy/the dead) and being worked over with mixed media materials in the now 21st century (present energy/the living).

Working on this series, I replicated my experience of Naples where life and death are bound showing us an extension of our energy going free beyond the clouds.