postcards
Postcards captures travel as color, memory, and playful reconstruction.
📮Postcards from the Edge ... of Restraint
These works begin with pure abstraction—color fields, temperature gradients, and architectural echoes. As the series unfolds, suggestion creeps in: a horizon implied, a mountain range remembered, maybe even a windmill. They’re not scenes but faded memories.
Some are rooted in Palm Springs light and lore, while others drift toward imagined atmospheres where civic signage and cul-de-sacs overlap. These aren’t the souvenirs you buy, but the ones you remember.
Each piece stages a tree in motion: leaning, bowing, reaching. Fence posts echo the ballet barre, grounding these quiet dancers in shifting light.
This is not a landscape. It’s a duet between gravity and grace.
Inspired by the emotional discipline of bonsai and the poetics of ambiguity, the series invites open interpretation. Meadow or water? Mourning or admiration? Each composition resists resolution, offering movement instead of meaning.
What begins as stillness becomes a ballet of memory.
Photographed at the Japanese Garden in St. Paul’s Como Park, these trees were not specimens but performers—poised, expressive, and quietly defiant.
For the full libretto and origin story, see “Bonsai” in the Conversations section.
