Sunrise Pattern over Water

encaustic, 30"x30"​

October 2012

As the title implies, the genesis of this piece was the shimmer of the rising sun on water. Specifically, the sunrise over the Black Sea, captured in a short video by my father. The constant movement and sparkle of the sea is mesmerizing, but I quickly realized that what really interested me was the ever-shifting pattern. And so, an instant of pattern, simplified and shifted away from its silvery sparkle, to be more clearly pattern. I left a fragment of horizon line as a tie back to the sea.  

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