Fallow Field
2023
Acrylic, phosphorescent, and glow in the dark paint on curved canvas, glass beads, wire, blacklight flashlights
8’ x 16’
Fallow Field is part of the Afterglow series. Layers of phosphorescent paint flicker as viewers seek-out hidden aspects of this painting with blacklight flashlights- illuminating plants, insects, root systems, and things that exist at the margins of our ability to perceive them because they are invisible, delicate, or small. Made using the silhouettes of pressed grasses and forbs foraged from the Prairie of the American Mid-West, it combines the literal and fantastical in one image. This panoramic landscape immerses the viewer in a vast prairie terrain.
Viewers are given black light flashlights and encouraged to explore the painting. Multi-colored phosphorescent paint glimmers under the black light while glow in the dark paint comes to life when the lights are turned down low.
