2021: 48 Contiguous States of the BrainTree

The 2021 calendar documents a sliver of the unfathomable cascade of images from the first pandemic year.

January is a winter watercolor on paper in the upper loft, and February is the birth of color and form from pixels.

March emerges from a drawing cut with a swivel knife on lacquer film and then digitally colored.

April and May are both grids of drawings made with a single broken line, and each is a part of the Braintree series that merges human mind with arboreal form. June is a black line drawing turned into color and shape.

July and August (and May as well) are examples of the 48 Contiguous States series in which each square equals one state, whether an evolving version of a common image or of a state of the (dis)United States.

September and October are autumn paintings in the upper loft, while November returns to the grid of 48 and combines a painting with a still life of birds’ nests, honeycombs, wasps’ nest, fungus, and milkweed.

December draws from thousands of sequentially related and extremely abstracted images that could become the source for animated film.