"she who makes the Moon the Moon" (2017 - ongoing)

The idea behind these work originated from playing with candles as a child. Growing up during a war, the power was out frequently and candles were a regular necessity. The world of dim light and shadows was endlessly fascinating, as was the opportunity to play and experiment with fire and melted wax. One of those experiments was testing what would happen if I dripped the wax from the candle into a cup of water sitting by my bed. After waiting for the wax to dry, I flipped the small disc over and was excited by the resulting texture of small dimples. It took over thirty years to come back to this idea, but the process is still as playful and the results as exciting.

Works in this ongoing series are created by casting wax into round, metal frames. As in other works, these pieces capture an action and freeze it in time. Here, too, the process of making the works has a substantial element of unpredictability and the final result is revealed only after the work is completed. The final textures tend to resemble cooled lava or the surface of some distant planet, especially when lit from the back.