JANET PFEIFFER

Janet Pfeiffer compares harnessing the flow of hot wax to capturing moments in time. “Sometimes it feels like drowning in a wave and sometimes it feels like surfing.” She likes to work in wax because it immediately refers to its origins as the building material of bee houses. “Its smell recalls its original purpose of providing shelter for life and its sweetness.”

Born in Los Angeles, California, when her family moved East and drove through Northern New Mexico where Georgia O’Keefe lived, though Janet was all of six months old, it was the beginning: “I have been looking longingly West ever since.”