Icons 4

This is another piece similar to Icons 2, which layers waxed paper, miniature boxes filled with various detritus from my garden and walks, all placed on a piece of scrap plywood which was gouged and waxed.

Icons 4: 10" x 19".

Icons 2

I’m also interested in the contrast between the tarpaper rose and it’s placement in a miniature environment, created by assembling objects from my walks and garden expeditions such as garlic stems, tomatillo wrappers, birch bark, paper wasp nests and hickory seed pods. Someone mentioned treating the bark for long term viability, and wax occurred to me, and as I started waxing the bark with a travel iron I unearthed in my basement, left over from my husband’s former life when he traveled the world, I found myself waxing papers from my stash as well. Now I have tarpaper roses, matchboxes filled with found treasures, and other objects, placed on layers of waxed papers in turn placed on waxed and gouged plywood, the wax being the common material linking my finds from nature with my folded tarpaper roses.

The piece shown here is 6" x 8" and is called Icons 2.