Tres Memoria, which you see here, represents one of Lynda Benglis's smooth - surfaced encaustic paintings executed on narrow, vertical supports using multicoloured liquid wax in even brush strokes, which she then manipulated with a blow torch to obtain
a marbleized color effect.
Weirdly timeless meditations on death, they simultaneously evoke cutting - edge Photoshop
effects and rococo wallpaper, with tiled and overlapping imagery that includes skulls from the Parisian catacombs; toy army men in
marbleized silhouette; and delicate,
color - graded pigeon feathers modeled on one blackening example the artist found in her garden.