
SLIP QUIETLY INTO MY ARMS
Slip Quietly Into My Arms presents a selection of multi-media works on paper which imagine a world in which humankind, rather than Nature, plays Master Engineer. In this colorful reverie, Nature is no longer capable of properly sustaining itself, and humans intervene with mechanical, spiritual and fantastical solutions. From this idea, dystopian machines spring forth; machines without which plants cannot grow. Actors take the stage, playing roles not meant for them.
The work is often set in gardens, mechanical or not, which play various roles: the fantastical landscape, the futile garden, or the hortus conclusus. Unlike its medieval namesake, however, this hortus conclusus conceals hidden dangers, and the illusion of safety is pierced. The language of sentiment and kitsch is at play, and it intersects in curious ways with the animals; sentiment and violence are compressed into the same plane, an echo of our relationship with the natural world.
Slip Quietly Into My Arms is on view at IA&A Hillyer in Washington, DC August 4 - 26, 2023.
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I Offered Your Hair to the Grow Lamp (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 36”W
$975

Cabinet’s Bramble (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 48”W
$1,200

Study for an Ideal Garden (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

We Watered Them with Weeping Willows (detail)
Mixed media on paper
18”H x 24”W
$545

A Delicate Construction for Safekeeping (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

The Actors Tried to Mimic the Sun (detail)
Mixed media on paper
18”H x 24”W
$595

Cabinet’s Bramble (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 48”W
$1,200

She Found a Box of Butterflies (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”H
$645

They Thought They Could Build Mechanical Gardens (detail)
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675

Slip Quietly Into My Arms (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

Study for an Ideal Garden (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

What the Fox Gave for Romance (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$745

I Offered Your Hair to the Grow Lamp (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 36”W
$975

Slip Quietly Into My Arms
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

They Thought They Could Built Mechanical Gardens (detail)
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675

We Watered Them with Weeping Willows (detail)
Mixed media on paper
18”H x 24”W
$545

The Actors Tried to Mimic the Sun
Mixed media on paper
18”H x 24”W
$595

Tokens from the Shell Purse (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
48”H x 36”W
$1,200

They Thought They Could Build Mechanical Gardens (detail)
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675

Slip Quietly Into My Arms (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

Cabinet’s Bramble (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 48”W
$1,200

So Small, So Sweet, So Soon (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

We Watered Them with Weeping Willows
Mixed media on paper
18”H x 24”W
$545
Garden of Recovered Objects
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$745

Cabinet’s Bramble (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 48”W
$1,200

Cabinet’s Bramble (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 48”W
$1,200

They Thought They Could Build Mechanical Gardens
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675

I Offered Your Hair to the Grow Lamp (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 36”W
$975

Objects They Forgot to Keep (detail)
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675
To Julia (detail)
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675

Cabinet’s Bramble (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 48”W
$1,200
So Small, So Sweet, So Soon
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

She Found a Box of Butterflies (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

I Offered Your Hair to the Grow Lamp (detail)
Mixed media on wood panel
36”H x 36”W
$975
What the Fox Gave for Romance
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$745

Study for an Ideal Garden (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

Objects They Forgot to Keep
Mixed media on paper
30”H x 24”W
$675

Inside the Hortus Conclusus
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675

A Delicate Construction for Safekeeping (detail)
Mixed media on paper
24”H x 30”W
$675


































