Rebecca Sira Studio

Unwinding

  • Wall-mounted assemblage of light blue painted wood, with a weathered branch capped in orange resting across the top and a small oak gall hanging by black thread over a hand-painted blue target.

    what’s on hand

    Three assemblages made for Oregon City’ Art Commission’s 6×6 show, June 2025. Each piece is 6×6 inches, built entirely from what I already had – found wood, stone, string, wool felt, char. One holds an oak gall on a string above a hand-painted target. Pull it back and let it fall. The satisfying plonk sound…

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  • Temporary collage arrangement of a used tea bag, a strip of weathered bark, torn blue paper, a wood block with small blue paper squares, a burl-like brown form, and a knotted stick, laid out on cardboard.

    temporary collage

    I live in the forest, and I’m always picking up moss, sticks, rocks, lichen, fallen bark. In 2024 I started arranging them into temporary collages – nothing glued, just composition, color, and texture worked out and then disassembled. I’d love to be more accomplished at collage, and this was a way to experiment without committing…

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  • Rebecca Sira on the TEDxSalem stage beside a large PVC-and-yarn sculpture lit blue

    Signal

    Three sculptures built from bent PVC pipe wrapped in yarn, made to read as neurons – each took hundreds of hours to build. For TEDxSalem 2019, whose theme was “Re,” I was invited back as artist in residence – a strange full circle, since I’d co-created the TEDx Artist in Residence program itself in 2014.…

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