Laser etched, hand tinted plexiglass, in 6 sections, in custom display.
24 x 10.5 x 65 inches
Edition of 5 variants (pigmented and clear)
Published by Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, NYC
 

Waterlily Transporter - Six Stages (2014) is a hand-pigmented laser-etching depicting a water lily from French impressionist painter Claude Monet’s garden. During the Summer of 2010, as an artist-in-residence at the Claude Monet Foundation, I was given a key to his iconic Japanese garden. I spent time by the pond contemplating how I might capture and preserve one of his water lilies to bring it home. Using a digitizing program that reproduced the flower’s voluptuous curves in “wireframe”—similar to the way fishnet-stocking articulates dimension when stretched (an effect I continue to explore in my work)—I ended up rendering a three-dimensional model from a perfect specimen of the flower. I then separated the digital drawing into six individual topographic layers and laser-etched each design onto its own sheet of Plexiglass that was then hand-tinted in pink acrylic. When the six sheets of plexiglass precisely align one behind the other, the renderings coalesce into a single, stylized image of the water lily, which appears to be magically suspended in three-dimensional space, like thread in resin.