Slow Tour: Part 2

"Bird Island", 48" x 60", mixed media on canvas, $3200

"Rabbit Ranch", digital C-Print by Brady Fontenot, 11" x 14" plus frame, edition of 10, $700

"Scent Boxes" (4 in the show: eucalyptus, chocolate mint, sugar cane, lavender), 16" x 20" x 4", wood with cotton curtain, burlap, live or dried plants, $250 each (lavender sold)

"Ghost Tree", 48" x 72", mixed media on canvas, $3600

"Doomsday" (left), 18" x 24", mixed media on canvas, $850
"I Wanna Go Home", 11" x 12", $300

"Crying Honey", digital C-Print by Brady Fontenot, 30" x 36", edition of 10, $1250
"Pigeon Moon", 18" x 24", mixed media on canvas, $850

"Amen", 13" x 14", stitching on vintage linen, SOLD
"Thread Rain", 16" x 20", mixed media on canvas, $500
"Deep Breath", digital C-Print by Brady Fontenot, 30" x 36", edition of 10, $1250

"Roots Planter" (on mantle above and detail below), basil, soil, wood, plexi, 20" x 12" x 3", $250
constructed in New Orleans by Mowgli Pierlas

"HOME", 36" x 24", preserved moss sewn onto stretched raw canvas, $500

I used myself in this body of work, not only as the maker of the things, but sometimes as the subject, like a semi-autobiographical story telling universal truths and cyclical lessons. I was reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" and thinking about how we learn the same lessons as adults that we first did as children. How we seek the same comforts, waver in faith based on our feelings, and bury painful memories in hopes of killing them. I was also thinking a lot about phantom limbs, but in an emotional way... emotional phantom limbs that we extend, reaching for something with something that doesn't exist, banging our emotional phantom elbow on the table and feeling the sting with no evidence to show for the pain.