Measuring Abundance

When society is busy doing a cost/benefit analysis, how do we measure abundance?

Measuring Abundance is my latest body of work. For this body I’m continuing to utilize layering and the mark of the hand, but using semi-transparent acetate layered over traditional rag paper obscuring details and adding marks created both digitally and by hand.

This series is informed by a recent consulting project where I was tasked with measuring the value of artists and the arts using data and graphs, combined with responding to my new involvement in a real estate project where the discussion often focuses on value per foot or acre. But in this type of accounting, how do we measure the value of something that can’t be quantified? When society is busy doing a cost/benefit analysis, how do we measure abundance? The sky? The wind? Silence? Time to be alone with our thoughts?