I’m really pleased with this piece, which features a lace overlay originally prepared for Woven Thresholds but left over after I replaced it with a version better suited to that panel’s color palette.
Both this painting and Woven Thresholds change as you move around them. Stand directly in front of the artwork, and your eye resolves each opening in the lace as an individual gap, separating the mesh from the paint underneath. Step back or view the panel from an oblique angle, and those tiny openings geometrically compress below your visual threshold. Your eye automatically averages the elements into a single, seamless surface (exploiting the same optical mechanism as pointillist painting and halftone printing). Ironically, a flat, head-on photo is the least resolved version of the painting you’ll ever see!
This is Afterimage, acrylic, lace, and jacquard trim on wooden floater panel, 14x11x.5”, 2026.
While both trims draw from traditional Baltic textile iconography, Woven Thresholds relies on a classic color scheme, whereas Afterimage shifts the geometric motif and renders it in a modern, fluorescent palette.