CYNTHIA ROBERTS

Suffusion is a body of work created in part in Costa Rica, at the Mauser Foundation international artist residency, located in the hills outside of Parrita, about an hour inland from Jaco. The roads into the hills are dusty, but the landscape reflects remnant lushness from unexpected rains. The view might be similar to a view generations have seen or Alexander von Humboldt would have celebrated, green swells dotted with palm trees and a robin’s egg blue sky dusky with humidity from a glimmering sea in the distance. Close up however, the network of life is detailed, continuous, and interconnected at a scale far more minute than the human eye can perceive.

Suffusion: 

when something slowly spreads throughout something else, like a feeling or a color

the gradual saturating of some substance or shade

the spreading of a fluid of the body into the surrounding tissues 

Works 14 × 11 inches and smaller, available for direct purchase or through Bromfield Gallery.