Collective Memory: Imogen

This piece is held by a private collector.

(2021)

14H x 16.5W x 6.5D Encaustic Mixed Media Sculpture

Wired for Wall Hanging or can be displayed as Free-Standing

Plaster casting, encaustic/wax, collage, ink, graphite

Imogen is a quiet one, always observing…careful to speak until she has enough information. Like all of us, she absorbs the inundation of sights and sounds that assault her senses each moment. However, Imogen has a long-honed filter. She allows these experiences– the sights, sounds, scents and interactions– to wash over her. She chooses what to retain and what to allow to move from her. Though young, she has lived a thousand lives and each has brought her to this moment. Wise well beyond her years, she is slow to feel the need to prove it. Thoughtful and careful, her exterior aloofness hides her steely inner resolve. Imogen can handle whatever comes her way. Butshe doesn’t need to tell the world about it.

Imogen collects rings. She stacks them on each finger until she can barely strum her guitar. A writer (specifically a poet), she strums amidst the chaos, can name every herb that will heal (or kill) you and has climbed mountains higher than your dreams. She keeps few folks close and allows even fewer to remain. You may not notice her as you pass, and that is your greatest loss.