DYNASTY

or How darkly-sparkly the decay of ornament glitters still.

Made from glitter, recycled plastics, sparkle pigment, plastic tube confetti, glass beads, nail polish, concrete, clay, acrylic, oil, aerosol, damar, uv archival.

I collect glitter compulsively, from everywhere I travel around the world. This was a sedimentation, built up in geological layers, of myriad kinds of sparkle. I laid and ripped up strata, exposing ridges and valleys. These confetti mountains were washed over with rains of glitter pigments and nail polish, aging and weathering its exuberance. Aerosol lids were shredded into handmade confetti, celebrating the beautiful undoing of all that ornament. A piece that fêtes, not fears time's relentless march.

48" x 48"
Private Collection.