BY JENNY PHILLPS

Chert & Fold 2, 2021
Encaustic, mulberry paper, india ink on wooden panels

A work in six panels. Each panel measures 12 x 9 inches

Artist’s Statement: “Walking Bernal Hill, I notice how the natural world is intertwined with the human-built environment. Pipes emerge from and reenter the earth; fences become one with brambles; paths connected and overlap with one another. I particularly love a wall of sandbags that has become fossilized over time. Chert & Fold explores the embedded textures of this place as well as its insistent movement. Using discarded paper, I swipe ink across a porous surface that absorbs the gesture, exposing a geologic underlayer that captures a conglomerations of element from the hill.”