AUGUST 2021.
Fuubutsushi
[(n.), Japanese] a poetic expression of certain things — feelings, scents, images — that evoke memories or anticipation of a particular season.
Found objects on 12 months of quarantine walks during the pandemic. A daily practice of slowing down, paying attention, and watching the steady and unperceptive daily change of the seasons in Seattle. This piece shows the distinct differences as well as the intrinsic interconnectedness of the seasons.
Mediums
Found objects
Pressed flowers
Dried leaves
APRIL 2021.
An emotionally evocative juxtaposition contemplating paradox and likeness.
Death and Life
Despair and Hope
Scarcity and Abundance
Fragility and Growth
Ends and Beginnings
Beauty
Uniqueness
Fleeting
Cyclical
From a single perspective, these things coexist in the same space and time.
May we choose where we direct our focus.
Exploring the images of home across the Pacific Northwest on a canvas intended for transport and travel.
Mediums
Wax on skateboard deck
Pen and ink on skateboard deck
Acrylic paint on skateboard deck
Grip tape on skateboard deck
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A photographic collection of the urban places I have traveled.
"Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures."
A photographic collection of the natural places I have traveled.
"Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit."
- Edward Abbey
"The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A photographic collection of portraits.
Sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own -- populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness --- an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dust.
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
APRIL 2013.
Is it 2D, is it 3D, could it quite possibly be both?
Torn between my love for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art, here I work to fuse the two together in a study of perception.
Stripping the piece of its concrete description as 2D or 3D, what remains is an examination of the elements and principles of design; these bridge the gap between the two visual spheres.
The alterations of a three-dimensional piece can optically flatten the sculpture so that it reverts back to a two-dimensional image.
Medium
Three shades of sand inside of 120 quart size mason jars
Powder coated metal, free standing, support structure
Dimensions
6ft x 3.5ft x 2.5ft
Mediums
Tea stained pages
Pen
Whiteout
Pencil
Colored Pencil
"Creativity takes courage."
- Henri Matisse
January 2013.
Windows are a fascinating subject matter in that they are the visual passage between private and public spaces. The vast array of architecture that exists around us often goes unnoticed, and this is a study of just that.
This project began as a recording of architecture and observing the ability of window reflections to open up the space. It transformed into a study of destroyed windows and how their functions change over time. This deterioration can leave a space damaged and empty, or perhaps give new life to the space as seen in the graffiti covered windows.
Engagement Photography -- a promise of a life together.
"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
- Vincent van Gogh
Wedding Photography -- a vow of forever.
An Uncommon Love by Terah Cox
May you have the love only two can know.
May you go where only two as one may go.
May the sun rise and set in your bonded hearts and the moon never find you too long apart.
May you cherish each other's dreams as your own and turn stumbling blocks into steeping stones.
May you brave life's mountains and miles together.
May there be no storm your love cannot weather.
May you be lovers and allies and friends.
May your soul's conversation never end.
May you capture on earth what's in heaven above.
May your hearts know the rapture of an uncommon love.
Newborn Photography -- a newly discovered joy.
"I praise you, for I am fiercely and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it well."
Family Photography -- a tribe for life.
"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."
- Albert Einstein
