Ghost Tree

Those who have stood before us

from the Ghost Tree series, 2024,

charcoal on rice paper, approx. 3 x 1 m.

Exhibited Loft 275 ArtSpace,

ILCH, Ivanhoe, 2024.

This Mountain Ash tree, sometimes held as a symbol of regeneration and memorial stretches upward above the viewer. Consisting of velvety charcoal marks and erasures, oppositional tensions between light and dark, positive and negative, figure and ground, and presence and absence become illusive.

Detail above

Studio Process: Making Ghost Tree