EDNA Silhouettes are provoked by the events of 2020. Collective angst prompted by a global pandemic, it's associated shutdowns, quarantine, and travel restrictions, have resulted in a cloistering of ourselves and our families. It has engendered near monastic isolation — visits occurring in the ethers — cybernetically — as if our lives have become virtual realities.

For those in urban locales, confronting societal issues connected to race, gender, and economic inequality, organized demonstration, and rebellion have served as a counterpoint to others isolating themselves from the world. Such extremes in human behavior have, no doubt, resulted from prolonged introspection and rumination, a function of too much time alone.

As unrest has swept across the world, global climate change has not relented — forests — photosynthetic carbon sinks — have been ablaze. Creatures emblematic of the wild places that bring us hope have experienced another type of jeopardy. Their homes have been in question. And, as we come to understand why, the mirror turns on ourselves.

How will we conduct our lives moving forward to reverse an annual season of ash-filled skies? The silhouettes of these works portray animals as shadows moving through the ash of our time. The animal’s opaque outlines, rendered in tar, stand out against a turbid atmosphere — sine waves of our time over which they have no control. Their undiminished forms offer a hope that together, we will stand with an atmosphere over which we can take action.