A small grouping of encaustic & mixed media art works using bold colors as the backdrop for unusual landscapes. Typical of many of my sculptural works, I use common subjects (fruits, vegetables, plants, insects…) combined with other elements in non-realistic ways; they are further disrupted by various levels of magnification. Enlarged microscopic organisms (here, diatoms) co-exist as part of ‘landscape’ components: trees, celestial bodies (stars, planets), dismantling the mainstream ‘human’ perspective. The inclusion of symbolic structures (doors) exist as elements to assist a shift into a different version of reality. Not surreal, nor fantastical, all co-existing elements pull us into a different subjective space; as a whole they speak our soul’s longings… to expand and move into a perspective of equanimity, resulting from internal transitions.