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the act of stillness
Read more: the act of stillnessA 15-foot dome, wrapped in a web of black yarn, built as the breakout-area installation for TEDActive 2015 in Whistler, BC – the same year Untangled was the stage piece. I was invited as artist in residence after Michelle Jones and I won a TEDx incubator prize for the TEDx Artist in Residence Program, an…
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untangled
Read more: untangledNine hollow-core doors turned canvas, suspended mid-air and lit with LED color that shifted every minute on a computer program – technology new enough at the time that the panels stayed vivid even in daylight. Untangled was my answer to a single prompt: velocity. To me, velocity is speed and direction – whether life is…
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postcards to myself
Read more: postcards to myselfA series of over 100 watercolor landscape paintings of Scotland, ranging from 4×6″ to 5×7″, begun Labor Day 2014 as part of the 100 Day Project with The Great Discontent and Elle Luna. Worked from photographs of places I hadn’t yet visited, painting each one became a way of researching the place itself – its…
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encaustic flora
Read more: encaustic floraEncaustic paintings made between about 2008 and 2012, the years I kept bees and started using beeswax as more than just an interest in nature – as a working material. Encaustic is an ancient technique, heated beeswax mixed with pigment and damar resin, dating back over 2,000 years, and I came to it after SEE,…
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encaustic fauna
Read more: encaustic faunaA series of bird portraits made for the Audubon Society’s Wild Arts Festival (2010) in Portland, using the same encaustic process as the encaustic flora paintings but built differently. Each bird started as a watercolor and colored pencil drawing, something I was enjoying with the product label illustrations I was commissioned to make. The birds…