Portfolio > Domestic Balance

Toile/ Domestic Balance IV
Toile/ Domestic Balance IV
oil, wax, and ink on canvas
48 x 36"
2005
At Home After Matisse
At Home After Matisse
acrylic and ink on paper
72 x 52 in.
2004
At Home After Matisse III (private collection)
At Home After Matisse III

(private collection)
oil, wax, and ink on canvas
48 x 24"
2006
The industry of beauty and human trafficking.
Traffic Patterns I (private collection)
acrylic and ink on canvas
46 x 60
2012
The industry of beauty and its intersection with human trafficking
Traffic I (Domestic Balance series)
acrylic and ink on paper
43.5 x 29
2012


For The Domestic Balance series, I mine the decorative fabric patterning tradition characteristic of toile, and adapt its narratives of pastoral bliss (and occasional social stratification). I re-configure them, utilizing the simplistic international figuration of pedestrian signs to create social tableaus drawn from familiar images in art, architecture or pictographs, etc. My acknowledgement of social change over time is reflected in the shifting of fortune from image to image.