Oil, ink, earth and paper on buried canvas
48 × 36 inches
2025

“Filice often buries her works inviting alchemical accidents to alter her weathered and crusty surface. With “The Falling, The Rising, 2024”, she not only buries the work but also incorporates earth as a pigment. Wholly abstract, it appears like an aerial view from space as well as a fragmented piece of concrete with an embedded red-hot ember. Filice’s penchant for paper is notable as its porous surface allows her to cut, tear, abrade and fold, eventually building up (along with stucco) to a three-dimensional surface.” —Nancy Kay Turner, Artist and Critic