Necropolis

Walking in Soria, Spain, we stumbled upon rock basins in the shape of Egyptian mummies, pre-Christian Iberian graves. Later we visited Gormaz, an austere Moorish fortress on top of a mesa, with its key-hole windows and caliphate arches. At the furthest point of our trip south, San Baudelio, a tiny Mozarabique church, joining East and West, Christianity and Islam.

For this group of small 3 ½” square drawings I used what I could find outside: nettles, wild spinach, iris and calendula blooms, rubbing them into the paper. Graphite brought gravity to the color, a kind of earth or mineral weight to the forms which suggest the arches, windows, doors and keyholes as well as the rock basins at the Necropolis in Soria.

Dee Homans

Dee Homans