RITE OF SPRING

Rite of Spring is an eleven-painting cycle created during the Spring of 2024 while I was Artist in Residence at N.A.M.E. (Not About Me) in Brooklyn, New York.
Every spring I paint to welcome the spring.
Sometimes it becomes a single painting.
Sometimes it becomes a conversation among many.
This year it became eleven.
They were painted over the several weeks, through the daily rhythms of light, weather, birds, insects, little demons, phantasies, flowers.
I don't think of them as eleven separate paintings.
I think of them as one impulse unfolding through eleven moments.
Each painting can stand on its own.
Together they reveal relationships that no single work can contain.
They share colors, forms, movements, and presences that appear, disappear, and return across the series, much like spring itself.
Every painting is made with acrylic on gardening weed barrier fabric. The paint is drawn directly onto the woven surface, then worked through the material until the image grows from within it. The hand-painted black border belongs to each painting from the beginning.
Rite of Spring is the third chapter of an ongoing practice.
Like every spring, it begins.