Based on the novella The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, this work was begun in 2004, continues during six months in Italy in 2006, and is featured in the solo show Yellow Wallpaper, David Kaye Gallery, spring 2007. Paintings on canvas, panel, card and paper represent psychic projections onto walls, works of art, and other surfaces. Utilizing lace, net and grid-like matrices compressed and compounded in layers of encaustic wax, these works explore the female domestic interior, and the female presence/absence in the history of art and architecture.
Multiple knowledge systems are studied, expressed, and interwoven by layering and embedding signs, signifiers, and symbols into the fabric of the work. The resulting objects become visual simulacra of the projections arising out of a Freudian psychoanalysis. A major visual device operating in these paintings is reversal: background is foreground; subject is embedded in object; image is field; and "figure" comprises ground (a feature of wallpaper.)
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