common ground
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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,…