The SITE Series, continues the use of beeswax as a primary medium. Earlier series included the Monographs in cast lead and cast pigmented beeswax, the Drawer pieces, and the Cast Panel pieces like ‘Porcelain and Fog’.

The new work has transitioned from pristine, unaltered cast surfaces of beeswax to those, which the artist has interacted with in an intensely expressive and surface manipulative manner. The surfaces in the SITE series begin as an empty shells until Cox pours the hot, pigmented beeswax into a mold that he has carefully formed around the picture panel. Cox then works into and on the pigmented beeswax while it is cooling.

Imbedded within the picture planes one finds objects such as animals tusks, small leather bundles which have been taken from a Dogon hunter’s shirt, (the Dogon are an African tribe from Mali). Other objects include shells, nuts and terry cloth impregnated with wood putty. The Dogon hunter’s tunic inspired, and continues to inspire the series.

Ultimately, the wax surface is patinated, and the panels are presented in the artist’s made integral frames of pigmented wood putty surfaces. The artist sees the work as referencing time and place, as ‘hunting’ is recorded by trophies specific to a time and place. The abstract images can be seen as sites (abstractions of maps), and as the titles suggest, a time/date is included.