TRACEY PHYSIOC BROCKETT portfolio contact about blog portfolio / Falling Bodies Falling Bodies Needing work that matched the intensity of feeling after my father's death, I turned to very small format paintings with mixed materials; candy wrappers and glitter, with their rich shiny ephemeralness suggesting both a lack of preciousness and transience. I thought of Medaeval altars and reliquaries, but they also reminded me of school children's topographical map projects made with plaster and they provided a kind of gleam of hope in a dark ground. I found they vacillated between a kind of urgent motion suspended in a viscous opaque field, and a barely coalescing shimmer of thingness. This series went untitled until the Pandemic, when I began to see them not only as depictions of teeming space at the atomic scale, maps, or galaxies in space, but falling stars in a world of constant building and undoing. July, 2021. Falling Bodies 4.30.21 2021 oil, foil, cold wax, beads, ink, glitter, wire on panel 14 x 13 x3 detail detail detail detail detail Falling Bodies 3.30.21 2021 oil, cold wax, foil, glitter, wire 7 x 6.5 x 3 private collection Falling Bodies 4.4.21 2021 oil, cold wax, glitter on panel 8 x 8 private collection Falling Bodies 4.25.21 2021 oil, cold wax. foil, glitter, wire 6.75 x 7.5 x 2 private collection Mercurial 3.21 2021 oil, foil, cold wax on panel 7 x 8 Falling Body 5.3.21 2021 oil, cold wax, foil, glitter on panel 6 x 6 Falling Bodies 4.21 2021 oil, foil, glitter, cold wax on panel 6 x 6 Untitled 2020 oil, foil, cold wax 12 x 12 Mercurial 1.21 2015-2021 oil, cold wax, foil, beads 8 x 8 private collection Falling Bodies 5.11.21 2021 oil, foil, glitter, cold wax on panel 6 x 6 Molecules 2016 oil, copper foil, wire, beads on panel 9 x 8 x 6 private collection Molecules (left), Small String Theories (right) , Molecules, (left), Little Blue Clouds (right) Falling Bodies 4.5.21 2021 oil, cold wax, glitter, mica, plastic on panel 8 x 8 private collection Falling Bodies 4.23.21 2021 oil, cold wax, glitter on panel 12 x 12 Prayer 2021 oil, foil, cold wax on wood and panel 6 x 9.5 Memorial Day 2018-2020 oil, foil, glitter, cold wax on panels 13 x 8 private collection Falling Bodies 5.8.21 2021 oil, mica, glitter, cold wax on panel 6 x 8 Meteor 3.21 2021 oil, foil, glitter, cold wax, on panel 8.75 x 6.5 Falling Bodies 1.21 2021 oil, foil, metal, bead on wood and panel 6.75 x 5 Small String Theories 2016 oil, foil, sequins, wire and bead on panel 8 x 10 x .5 private collection Little Blue Clouds 2016 oil and candy wrappers on panel 8 x 8 private collection Little Night Sky Feeling 2018-2021 oil, acrylic, foil, glitter, wire, beads on panel and wood 5 x 7 x 2 Disintegration Particles 2016 oil and mixed media on panel 12 x 12 Motes 2016 oil and foil on panel 12 x 12 private collection © copyright Tracey Physioc Brockett, 2021 all rights reserved