JOY
Mixed media
96 x 47 x 3.5, 2024 $6000

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JOY (and its companion piece PAIN) are part of a series of work made in 2024 called Tax Included.

The source material for these works is my Daily Art Habit series. I make a digital painting every day. This is a practice I started in 2018 to reclaim my creative energy after a long hiatus from art. Since then, it has grown and evolved into a time-based series of autobiographical digital paintings – now built over more than 2200 consecutive days’ work.

JOY is created from 111 different images from the series, selected for their green, olive or yellow color.  Each image is printed as a four-inch postcard three times, then cut, folded and constructed into dimensional forms. The companion piece, PAIN is created from 142 images in the same method. The pieces are designed to share some of their imagery, with light surfaces for JOY and dark for PAIN. Where the imagery overlaps, the  works share the same physical materials. PAIN was built first, photographed, then deconstructed and its pieces reconstructed into JOY. 

Additional works in the Tax Included series include LOVE and LOSS, completed in early 2024, and HOPE and FEAR (currently in in production).

For my Metatopology exhibition in April 2024, I produced sets of notecards for each pair, but did not show the original artwork until the debut of LOVE at the Seattle Art Fair in July 2024.