domestic disturbance
Next door to my home, there is a row of eleven black walnut trees. Late summer and throughout the fall, loud pops ring out as passing cars run over the walnuts that have fallen onto the street. My work is inspired by these incidents as I use a minivan to crush walnuts onto watercolor paper - the walnuts leave embossed stains, small bursts of ink that create an intense aesthetic artifact.
These stains are then juxtaposed with walnut ink drawings of houses and vehicles from my block. I live in a quiet and conservative corner of the upper Midwest, in Northwest Iowa, but recent political events have brought to light underlying disagreements and tensions. These crushed walnut street scenes are part of a series I have titled Domestic Disturbance which suggest there lies more beyond the idyll.
These stains are then juxtaposed with walnut ink drawings of houses and vehicles from my block. I live in a quiet and conservative corner of the upper Midwest, in Northwest Iowa, but recent political events have brought to light underlying disagreements and tensions. These crushed walnut street scenes are part of a series I have titled Domestic Disturbance which suggest there lies more beyond the idyll.
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