Tear bottle portraits steeped in

 sea water and sealed in wax.

 

 

Using rough wood or handmade paper as the support, most images are loosely based on old sepia photographs. An installation component - based on the intimacy of tears - utilizes images and fragments of text: recollections of transition, loneliness and loss. Each woman has a lachrymal, or tear bottle, partially filled, through which her reflections - both literal and figurative - are seen.

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