Where the Ocean Meets the Sea 6

RENÉE DECARLO Where the Ocean Meets the Sea 6, 2024Mixed Media on Wood Panel37 x 25 x 3 in ABOUT THE WORK "My work is what I consider to be a form of life drawing and begins in the recording of precise physical moments in time; the bumps in the road, the jostle of the bus, the turbulence in the airplane, and the chaotic patterns that people move around me. I’m a map-maker; documentarian and translator of my own physical experience through time and space; documenting mundane and possibly repetitious moments that often go unrecognized or considered unimportant, and yet are part of collective experience that are not at all unique to me; and are recognized in my work by a line of ink. These drawings are the foundation of lines, screen printed across many surfaces and in layers with many other line drawings to form a mass of lines and spaces. With color, I find a pathway through - much like a map or a city or the waterways through the landscape - these layers of lines and colors become an a