Photo Collage with Encaustic
This is a new body of mixed-media paintings created "from the bee's perspective" using photographs taken of pollinator-friendly plants at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen, Minnesota. I also take landscape photos with multiple views on film as double-exposure images. I want to show the different perspectives of nature in a visual collage of close-up and faraway in one frame. My goal with these encaustic paintings are for them to be both a painting and a photograph.
The images are photographs printed on tissue paper combined with encaustic (beeswax paint) to raise awareness about the environmental effects on the pollinator population in Minnesota. Encaustic paint is applied molten and creates beautiful texture and translucency.