A horseshoe, open end up, holding whatever is left in it. Yellow catches along the inside curve where the torch found the oil stick.
Right side up, which in this body of work is the exception. Most of the horseshoes are pouring out. This one is still asking.
How these are made. Latex lays the ground. The mark goes down in oil stick, then gets worked over with an old brush still carrying dried oil and chunks of whatever it was used for last, dragging the image apart and pulling pieces of it back off. Then a blow torch. The oil stick burns and dries and leaves a barnacled crust behind. What is left is a mark that looks like it has been out in the weather for a hundred years.
14 × 17 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
A horseshoe, open end up, holding whatever is left in it. Yellow catches along the inside curve where the torch found the oil stick.
Right side up, which in this body of work is the exception. Most of the horseshoes are pouring out. This one is still asking.
How these are made. Latex lays the ground. The mark goes down in oil stick, then gets worked over with an old brush still carrying dried oil and chunks of whatever it was used for last, dragging the image apart and pulling pieces of it back off. Then a blow torch. The oil stick burns and dries and leaves a barnacled crust behind. What is left is a mark that looks like it has been out in the weather for a hundred years.
14 × 17 in · Latex, oil stick and coffee on watercolor paper · 2026
