![These themes are expressed in images of insect wings, quantum physics equations, and Hawaiian chants about the afterlife: the comfort of the darkness and the unknown .](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1498956231977-R74U6O07WY7XBGPXW8RP/Encaustic1_Resilience.jpg)
Encaustics
You will find secret codes embedded everywhere.
My encaustic paintings are inspired by non-linear ideas of life and time — the play between the frailty and the infinity of nature.
![These themes are expressed in images of insect wings, quantum physics equations, and Hawaiian chants about the afterlife: the comfort of the darkness and the unknown .](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1498956231977-R74U6O07WY7XBGPXW8RP/Encaustic1_Resilience.jpg)
These themes are expressed in images of insect wings, quantum physics equations, and Hawaiian chants about the afterlife: the comfort of the darkness and the unknown.
![In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the universe.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1498956312522-47OS98SBLYSYWZQ9WAIE/Encaustic4_Absence.jpg)
In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the universe.
![Hawaiians were taught that there was a place of darkness called Milu and a place of light called Wakea. The aumakua were the intermediaries between the living and the dead.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499739998518-2B4Y6C15MS1X9FWEZAVF/Encaustic_w.jpg)
Hawaiians were taught that there was a place of darkness called Milu and a place of light called Wakea. The aumakua were the intermediaries between the living and the dead.
![Na aumakua mai ka po mai Nana i na pua, ho‘okomo iloko o keia po o ka malamalama. "Aumakua of the night, Watch over your offspring, enfold them in the belt of light,"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499740024426-IQFOABDVI9XKWL5FHNIL/Encaustic_xx.jpg)
Na aumakua mai ka po mai
Nana i na pua, ho‘okomo iloko o keia po o ka malamalama.
"Aumakua of the night,
Watch over your offspring, enfold them in the belt of light,"
![The ancient technique of encaustic painting involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added, then applied to a rigid surface, usually wood.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499050537222-6GG6UQE8DM4EAIOQVMRM/Encaustic2_Vanishing+Speed.jpg)
The ancient technique of encaustic painting involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added, then applied to a rigid surface, usually wood.
![During this painstaking process, various elements are added to both warmed and cooled wax to create the textures, lines, and ghosts you see in the final works.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499050461901-0GVDZE7G612IEVPC9NPL/Encaustic3_Gone+Family.jpg)
During this painstaking process, various elements are added to both warmed and cooled wax to create the textures, lines, and ghosts you see in the final works.
![Encaustic_y.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499740032355-TL3O3NV042L34GVZ8DKU/Encaustic_y.jpg)
![IMG_6568.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1503459509517-D8NKT6914XXYUCM1CRPB/IMG_6568.jpg)
![Encaustic_z_detail.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499740091804-DB6IJ2JK57FMX4APIDKP/Encaustic_z_detail.jpg)
![IMG_6566.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1503459528748-GFFT2V7NWZ1S6M3B7TK8/IMG_6566.jpg)
![Encaustic_z_detail2.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499740096816-32LP05GA0I855GBKLHPE/Encaustic_z_detail2.jpg)
![IMG_6573.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1503459541115-LLPUQKJXT8DRTQVWPEER/IMG_6573.jpg)
![IMG_6561.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1503459556700-BV7J63L2XR2LYRBWRF76/IMG_6561.jpg)
![Encaustic_Lost Constant II.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1503459648991-0BDO8W5UNOF7GCD0O5UN/Encaustic_Lost+Constant+II.jpg)
![Encaustic_Lost Constant I.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499050485403-U0OHOO8NXI8G3SGZG56B/Encaustic_Lost+Constant+I.jpg)
![Encaustic_Lost Constant III.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1498956174010-D7C98P3Z2AFOFAIBG6KZ/Encaustic_Lost+Constant+III.jpg)
![Encaustic_z_whole.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499740115738-SEWMUL37XVR3TF1RXWDU/Encaustic_z_whole.jpg)
![Encaustic_x.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1499740011200-1Z80OR9RM5OQ91OJKRTZ/Encaustic_x.jpg)
![IMG_5239.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1498956302413-XCCVA1OMZL84OWPA6LTH/IMG_5239.jpg)
![IMG_5237.jpg](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/595836f32e69cf918e981005/1498956311851-4GIXUHO78K1PTMACVUJG/IMG_5237.jpg)