Flying/Falling.   2002-03.
(22 panels, dimensions variable.)  Oil, acrylic, and casein paint, archival ink jet prints, beeswax, collage on paper.  
(Installed 2003; artist studio, New Rochelle, NY.)

The installation is painted both on the paper panels and directly onto the wall -- the painted 'shadows' of flying birds moving across the piece to evoke a sense of passing time. The piece addresses issues of beauty and aging and there is a cyclical movement of the figure in red as she jumps, dives, flies, and falls, to finally land on her feet. The individual images reference tightropes and balancing acts, being in and out of control. The panels, while discrete and self-referential, also refer outside their separate frames to one another: a voyeur looks across the void of the wall at a young girl whose image exists on a separate panel - she is always on display, even as she struggles with her balance.