Its own room

Butter Woods

Tamera Abaté · Encaustic on Wood Panel · 12″ h × 12″ w

Nothing here has been enhanced. Everything you see is derived from the object — the record below says exactly how each view was made.

Butter Woods by Tamera Abaté
Set your screen once. Hold a bank card against the screen and slide until the orange outline matches its width.

The surface under moving light

This view is built only from real photographs of the work, each lit from a different angle, so you can move the light yourself and watch the real surface answer. It is being captured in the studio and will appear here. Until then we show nothing rather than an imitation.

I work into the unknown here — golden ochre and dark reddish-brown meeting white in thin, irregular streaks as the wax moves downward, the torch deciding where each line settles. The surface holds what happened: the bubbles, the splatter, the texture that stays once the wax cools. I am always adding new layers, yet always reaching down to what's underneath.

Encaustic on cradled birch panel · 12 × 12 in

The Authenticity Record

ViewMade fromProcessing
The whole work, deep zoom, loupe, true sizeGallery photograph of the workNone beyond resizing for the web

Nothing on this page is retouched, relit in software or generated. A full studio capture of this work is scheduled.

ArtistTamera Abaté
MediumEncaustic on Wood Panel
Size12″ h × 12″ w
Price$750