NEW COLLECTION 2022
IF PAINTINGS WERE PERFUME
IN THE SUMMER/FALL 2021…
…immersed in the creative energy of Jackson Art Center in Washington, DC, I began a new series of work celebrating one of my little-known quirks:
I smell colors!
Whether actual synesthesia—a neurological phenomenon where information meant to stimulate one of the senses stimulates one or more of the other senses—or just very strong associations between colors and olfactory experiences/memories, it’s extremely powerful. It can literally make my mouth water if it’s a crossover associated with food, which makes sense because smell and taste centers in our brains are so closely linked. But it’s not just food smells that colors evoke for me - it can be a scent of fresh laundry on the clothesline in summer or newly mowed grass or deep woods in springtime. And since our olfactory system is very tightly connected to areas of the brain important for memory, color and evoked fragrances can take me back in time and to distant places - all without stepping foot outside my studio.
So here’s to the weird and wonderful hardwiring of color-smell crossover in my brain - what about yours?!
Bewitched
If Summer Was Perfume I
If Summer Was Perfume II
If Summer Was Perfume III
If Summer Was Perfume IV
Midnight Sun I
Midnight Sun II
Midnight Sun III
Midnight Sun IV
Patchouli I
Patchouli II
Patchouli III
Sweet Loam I
Sweet Loam II
Sweet Loam III
Sweet Loam IV
In Situ Gallery
