This page offers a step by step introduction to the method I use to produce an encaustic image, and documents the transformation of a work by Peter Eudenbach into something new.

The original piece was a non functional Macintosh Power Book that Peter converted to a single work of art. He replaced the screen with a piece of "blackboard" slate, and on it, hand drew the Mac startup icon. As such it was an example of his wry sense of humor, and a meditation on transient technology.

My decision to ask his approval to transform the piece into one of my own was occasioned by the opportunity to present a piece of work in a special 10th anniversary exhibit at Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, in Neuenhaus Germany. All the artists who had presented work at the space over the course of it's existence were invited to submit a piece that could be housed in a grid of specially prepared boxes. Since a wax image requires a rigid substrate, and since the series I've been working with recently has its structure determined on a computer, (and in my case, a laptop), this seemed like the perfect chance to make a small statement of my own that would be a good fit with the proposed venue.

By clicking the linked images below, you can follow the process from start to finish, with a detailed description given on each of the large image pages that can be reached by clicking on the thumbnail images.