Carol Mordecai Myers - Dropping In

This latest body of work comes from two conflated ideas.  One from my recent introduction and love of scuba diving and the other of the feeling that happens when one drops into a project or task and is completely present.  

When you drop in under the surface of the water an entire new world of colors and textures appears.   Scuba diving requires and  allows you to be completely present listening to your breath and focusing on the world around you.  The same happens when I drop into my art practice letting the world melt away and focusing on what is before me.

I work on several pieces at a time in different mediums and usually over a long period. Over years I have developed a process of building layers and then disrupting the resulting surfaces--through scraping, sanding and washing--to reveal underlying layers.  This active “erosion” of the work introduces elements of time and of revealing what has been hidden beneath. In dialogue with the work, I then decide to keep the new found passages and micro-landscapes or cover them up and let something else emerge/re-emerge.