KIM CARDOSO (CA)

Shatter, encaustic and oil on cradled panel, 16 x 16 inches

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Living the beautiful heaviness of my roles as a midwife and mother on a planet in peril, I paint to create a space of peace. These pieces about climate change are my way of working out reverence and sadness for the planet. The very literal melting, dripping wax icebergs are obscured by more wax and incised lines, like cracks on a fragile pond – a world about to break. All is somewhat obscured – just as climate change, or “global weirding,” as my kid’s fourth grade teacher used to say, is imagined away by some.

The image below offers a view of Shatter in situ to help to visualize this piece in a home setting.

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