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Messages, 2023
Double-sided works made with encaustic, paper, thread, ink, and Letraset. I think of them as notes or partial records—altered manuscripts carrying traces of time, repair, and memory. Different conversations exist on each side; me
Red Thread 11x9 paper, wax, thread 2022ish 

I found this older Message piece buried in the studio, dipped in wax and carrying traces of things I seem to return to over and over — fragments of language, concealment, marks of repair, surface as
Looking back at an older painting and realizing how many threads were already there.
Repetition, interruption, layering, marks that feel almost like a coded language.
Even then, I think I was painting like a printmaker — building passages throu
Before the tearing, burning, stitching, and fragments… there were paintings like this.
Looking back, I can see the vocabulary already forming.
The Warriors Secret 
30x30
Oil on panel c1995
Available
The Secret, c. 1993.
I thought I was leaving these paintings behind, but I can see now that the vocabulary was already there — marks as language, repetition, concealment, fragments of
The roots of the alphabet I’m still using today.
Appar
My piece is included in “In Pieces”@ Krausharrgalleries uptown NYC
https://www.kraushaargalleries.com/exhibitions/in-pieces- 

#collage #artcollector #artcollage #lisapressmanart
Acts of Small Repair@Salon Zürcher, 100 Women of spirit +, Part 4