“Seasons Quartet brings together four discrete bodies of work made over twelve years. All four are a kind of self-portraiture – a lone and costumed figure in gorgeous and strange landscapes, mythic. We see her on a glacier, in a lake, in woods, in snow, in fields, on lava flows. Bringing together this many years of work in one show is an occasion to look back at decades of artmaking and see the threads pulled through.
Is the mythic being who appears in all four bodies of work at home in these desolate landscapes? Is she afraid? Is she mourning? Protecting? Where has she been? Where is she going? Looking at her, watching her, I have the sense that she has walked out of the fairy tale, released herself from its hold, and is now disoriented, wondering what can be salvaged on this planet that has been so ravaged, that is heating, melting, flooding, burning. These works are an elegy, I think, for the world as we’ve known it, for the earth, for the disappearing beings we share this planet with, and for ourselves.”
