The House in the Woods

2025, MONOPRINT, ACRYLIC, COLLAGE ON ARCHIVAL PAPER, 23.75 X 17.75”, UNFRAMED

When my children were small, we lived deep in the woods on the side of a mountain, in a chalet-like house with no neighbors — only trees, weather, and sky. An earlier owner had installed diamond-patterned windows throughout the house, not as a decorative grille, but as real cut-glass panes. Light, forest, and weather were always arriving through those faceted shapes.

That memory lives inside this piece. The lattice of black diamonds at the center holds the feeling of looking through a window — or perhaps being held by one. Around it, layers of color, foliage, and pattern press in, like the wild world beyond the glass.

This work sits in the question I still carry: were we looking out into the unknown, or being protected as we looked? Home and wilderness, safety and possibility, memory and mystery all meet in that diamond grid.

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