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SNOW AND GRASS

Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS
Grimanesa Amoros SNOW AND GRASS

Encaustic, 2001
Media: Drawing Ink on hand made abaca paper with encaustic medium and beeswax on Birch plywood.
Photos by Grimanesa Amorós Studio

As I was driving up the highway through the Hudson Valley two years ago, I noticed several large patches of snow covered grass melting in the heat of daylight. I stopped the car and walked towards them. When I examined delicate layers of icy snow slowly melting through and around the grass, they revealed intricate textures and strange surfaces. Their shapes mesmerized me as they metamorphosed before my eyes. This mystic moment lingered in my mind.

Months later I was making handmade paper using different types of grass when, suddenly, I recalled those patches of snow I had seen while driving through the Hudson Valley. The intermingling of such poignant and personal moments in time with my papermaking and encaustic work marked the beginning of a new body of works such series as  Snow and Grass, La Piel, and Petalos. In these works, all encaustic media on handmade paper, layered images beneath an encaustic surface of perfect thickness transmit gentle physicality.