Thirst
Mixed Media on Wood
24X18″
2018
The process of creating THIRST was a process of personal healing for me as I gasped my way through walking pneumonia. What was happening in my lungs brought home air and water pollution concerns and climate change years before the Covid-19 virus became a pandemic.
Plagued by fatigue, I could at first only do sketches to explore how swallowing involves an opening and closing of the trachea as either breath or liquid flow through us. I kept looking at anatomy books with dissected pictures of the “bronchial tree” detailing larynx, voice box, windpipe, lungs and alveolar ducts. The plastic bottle of polluted yellow fluid spiraled its way down into my uterus to emphasize life’s need to recycle itself.
pencil on paper 11″ X 8.5″
2018
In my early pencil sketches for “Thirst” my skeletal alter ego is up to her neck in rising waters as she gulps the last dregs of plastic bottled H2O. Fish move in and out of her lungs as a garden of alveoli sprout from the bronchial tree.
pencil on paper 11″ X 8.5″
2018
my thirsty monster is consuming and being consumed inside & out by ameobic-like creatures!! These fantasy Protozoa love moisture and signal our returning to the earliest stages of plant and animal cell life!
pencil on paper 11″ X 8.5″
2018
