process
I usually work with acrylic paints, watercolors, melted beeswax, charcoal, crayons and colored pencils on handmade birch panels or watercolor paper.
Often I layer collaged bits of photographs, diaries, Nepali prayer flags, handwritten letters, objects of devotion, shards of communication in other languages, or collected handiwork from distant cultures into the first layers of the paintings. While they are usually unrecognizable beneath the layers of paint and wax, I know they have instructed the subsequent images and I like the idea that these expressions of others' hands can become a part of my work here.
