I am pleased to follow up my last post with this announcement that my encaustic and fiber sculpture "Passages" received an Award of Recognition in the 70th Annual (WVE) Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition at The Swope Art Museum. Passages Juror Carter E. Foster, the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art, wrote this statement for the exhibition program. "Surrealism is alive and well. Whether through startling disjunctions of scale, eerie elimination of detail, strange juxtapositions or simply playful twists on observed reality, many of the artists I chose for this year's exhibition find endless richness in tinkering with the world while remaining fully part of it, without resorting to abstraction. Some mined their psyches or that of an imagined other quite playfully and optimistically, without the darker undercurrents often common in this type of work. On the other hand, the terror of the mind's unknown or blacker...