Pamela Shipley

S E N E S C E N C E

My Senescence series celebrates, metaphorically, the natural beauty and dynamism inherent and so often overlooked post-menopause. The series is called senescence as this is the biological condition or process of deterioration that happens with age. Harvesting only spent blossoms the miraculous range of color in these works appears when I manipulate discarded data, from nature.

During the pandemic quarantine this spring I began to read the data in several of the senescence works from last season, using graphite to articulate my analysis similar to earlier data drawings. Pigments are infused in the paper and when back-lit reveal intense saturation of color and clarity.

Each chromatogram print is naturally occurring pigments on paper, some are analyzed using graphite