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In the spirit of working with artists Sophie McMahan and Patricia Monigold, I chose to explore the face. Instead of handling the face in a more traditional portrait style, I approach it as a landscape. The close-up images of the face remove the subject from a specific environment, and in a sense turn the face itself into a quasi environment. These pieces invoke the sometimes terrifying, yet beautiful power of intimacy by the focusing on color relationships and surface texture.

Cavern of Teeth
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36
2011
Pyroclastic Mustache
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36
2011
Nasal Peak and Roche Moutonnee
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36
2011
Cirques of the Ear Canal
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36
2011
Cliff Face
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36
2011