Devil Canyon Portrait | Grass from Devil Canyon and gesso | 16 x 20 in. | 2023
Diablo Range Serpentine Portrait | Serpentine from near San Benito Mountain | 20 x 24 in. | 2023
Public Inheritance 02 | Ink impressions of historically significant hazardous waste | 36 x 53 in. | 2023
Contained Landscape 01 | Glue, charcoal, reflective gravel, shell | 7 x 5.5 x 2 in. | 2022
Hillside Bones | Charred cow bones, ash from fire in the East Hills of San Jose | 13.5 x 9 x 4.5 in. | 2022
Spring 2020 | Asphaltum on paper | 18 x 24 in. | 2020
Spring 2020 detail
Summer 2020 | Asphaltum on paper | 20 x 24 in. | 2020
Fall 2020 | Asphaltum on paper | 18 x 24 in. | 2020
Coalinga Fire | a collection of 4 found objects from a fire site near Coalinga | 2020
Melted Trailer | Metal and rocks | 12 x 15 x 1 in.
Brick | Metal on brick | 8 x 4 x 3 in.
Twice-baked Tile | Tile | 4.5 x 4.5 x .25 in.
Wood Stand, detail | Wood cut by fire crew | 14 x 20 x 10 in. | not pictured in full
Self Portrait 01 | Wood ash on paper | 17 x 26 in. | 2019
Self Portrait 02 | Object tracings on paper | 17 x 26 in. | 2019
Self Portrait 03 | photograph | 2020
History Is Derived from the Land | set of 4 pieces | Wood stain and charcoal on paper | 2019
The full name of this piece is in four parts. The names given in parentheses are the shorthand names for each piece.
( Terrane | Export | Consumption | Culture )
If History is an account of power through time …
( Terrane ) | 17 x 26 in. | detail below
… And if power through time is determined
by who has what resources and when …
( Export ) | 17 x 26 in.
… And if resources are derived from rocks in the earth
and from the forests that grow from those rocks
and from the animals that grow from those forests …
( Consumption ) | 17 x 26 in. | detail below
… History is an account of humans’ exploitation of nature
for power and for the comfort of the powerful.
( Culture ) | 17 x 26 in.
Oil Studies | Asphaltum, glue, and sawdust on wood | 32 x 8 x 9 in. | 2019 | with details below
Yield 01 — An Agricultural Portrait of California in Late 2010s | Serigraph | 3.5 x 4.5 x 1.5 feet | 2019
Yield 01 | Artist Proof | 28 x 40 in. | 2019
Yield 01 premiered at the Santa Paula Art Museum’s 2019 Art About Agriculture Show.
It is a compilation documentary of each county’s contribution
to California’s $ 50 billion agriculture industry.
© 2023 Cal Thomas Tabuena-Frolli