Joan Stuart Ross

My recent mixed media prints combine relief, monotype, digital images, hand stitching, collage and encaustic on vintage book pages. They are influenced by how, throughout history, body parts of ancient cultures’ sculptures have been joined, willy-nilly, to create hybrid forms and disparate personalities. I see these buried figures, discovered in midden heaps and under piles of wars’ refuse, as motifs that emphasize vulnerability and triste, a mournful quality from their having been thrown together from incongruent parts—a lamentation for our own time. These personalities have had a place in their found environment, and when unearthed, they take on new life.

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Face to Face
Mixed Media with encaustic
on vintage book pages
2006
Unique
10" x 16"

Doubt
Mixed Media with encaustic
on vintage book pages
2006
Unique
9" x 28"

Where Are We Now
Mixed Media with encaustic
on vintage book pages
2006
Unique
9" x 28"

H'mong
Mixed Media with encaustic
on vintage book pages
2006
Unique
17" x 22"

Pharoah
Mixed Media with encaustic on vintage book pages, 2006, Unique,  9" x 12"