While winter trees are bare
I create space-contained systems driven by shapes
strength and resilience in an intuitive mixed media collage assemblage of weathered natural bamboo with upcycled ultrasuede
Middleground
Pacific 2 (Seal Rocks Beach), 2023, ink on watercolor paper, 32 x 12 in. / 81.28 x 30.48 cm. abstract painting While winter trees are barePacific 2 (Seal Rocks Beach), Mary Frisbee Johnson, 2023, ink on watercolor paper, 32 x 12 in. 81. 28 x 30. 48 cm. I think of words that relate to movement and shape: twist, eddy, chop, dribble, drift, ooze, ebb, stream, spurt, surge, flood, attack. These words help me to invent descriptive marks with my brushes and ink.