Lip Service in Blue
oil paints, charcoal, paper, encaustics on wood
14 x 14
From the Delft Series:
Born into a nomadic childhood, I moved every three years, each relocation driven by my mother’s appetite for new floor plans and color schemes. Though we never left Long Island, only shifting from one expressway exit to the next, each move reconfigured my sense of place. As a child, I accompanied my mother through model homes, where serious decorating conversations shaped how I learned to see. What once felt destabilizing became a way of organizing experience. My memories are color coded and archived by house number, interiors mapped alongside what unfolded outside their walls. Place, for me, is architectural and psychological.
These paintings are anchored in the years we lived at 29 Weeks Street (Long Island Expressway, Exit 61), from 1959 to 1962, following our move from Queens to the suburbs. Inside, the house was governed by a strict blue and white palette: every room, every drape, every plate organized into solids and pattern, punctuated by green plants; reenforcing order, control and maternal authority. Outside the house, postwar prosperity and Cold War unease shaped daily life. The work forms a portrait of domestic aspiration, control, and place shaped through design.
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