Sedimentation & Erosion by Jen Seron

Layered canvasses! See animation of paintings under the surface, below!

Sedimentation builds up on edges and in layers. Erosion wears away and breaks down in cracks and along weak places.

A buried layer underneath the visible!

If you watch the video above you can see the layers under the surface of one of the 14 paintings in this series. You can hear my piano composition/playing also.

The video documents stripping layers from the blue starry surface visible today. You will see many of the layers underneath the surface of one of the 14 mixed-media, layered paintings. See my Chiratic Chaos series for images of peeling paint and cracks in the world's fabric that inspire me.

One of the first buried layers underneath the visible!

This series of 14 paintings from 2004-5 was made when I was volunteering at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) helping to get their fossil invertebrates online, collapsing old databases into their new system, photographing fossil invertebrates, learning the work of an assistant archivist. I loved learning new skills while helping the AMNH!

This series of paintings was layered and layered with oil paint, gesso, acrylic (and more) in a way so as to encourage erosion over time of each new layer as the paintings age naturally. The hidden trilobite in this painting is in honor of Niles Eldredge who is a paleontologist at the AMNH (see phacopid trilobites and read about Punctuated Equilibria).

What layers do you have that are not visible?

If you watch the video to the left you can see the layers on one of the 14 paintings in this series. The piano music you will hear with the video was also composed and played by me. I have been playing piano since I was a child and composing my own piano music since I was in college.

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