Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Thursday, November 08, 2012
"Birch Tree Forest" Installation
As promised (though late, sorry about that, gradschool apps got in the way).
Official nice image from my Birch Tree Forest installation.
Official nice image from my Birch Tree Forest installation.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Madder and Bedstraw
I have new plants!
This one is Lady's Bedstraw (a relative of French Madder). It gives clear yellow from its tops and oranges and salmons from its roots!
These are my madder! They give lovely reds and rusty oranges.
Of course, it takes 3 years for all these plants' roots to mature... So, I'll let you know in 2015 how the colors come out.
This one is Lady's Bedstraw (a relative of French Madder). It gives clear yellow from its tops and oranges and salmons from its roots!
These are my madder! They give lovely reds and rusty oranges.
Of course, it takes 3 years for all these plants' roots to mature... So, I'll let you know in 2015 how the colors come out.
Saturday, August 04, 2012
"Birch Tree Forest" Installation
My newest art installation, "Birch Tree Forest" opened at the artLab space @ Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, MI on July 27th. It will be up through Sept. 3rd!
For this installation, I wanted to take the feeling of being in a birch forest and bring it into the gallery-- the look, the sounds, the way light filters down to you... This idea began over a year ago, while I was in Michigan working with Meadow Brook Theatre. I had this clever notion to make paper birch trees out of paper. It worked to a point, but the "trees" didn't really stand up on their own. They felt they needed to be a part of something larger. I came back to the idea during my residency with ISLAND (Institute for Sustainable Learning, Art, & Natural Design) in 2011, when I was actually in a place that had birch forests. It wasn't just the beauty of the trees that kept coming back again and again to capture my interest, but the stillness of the forest, the bird sounds, summer cicadas, wind rustling through the branches, and the crunch of leaves under my feet. This over-all "feeling" of a forest lodged its self somewhere in the back of my mind, lurking in wait for that perfect opportunity to be realized.
Finished wall, a job well done.
Now onto the trees....
Starting to look like a forest...
And, artist talk... go.
I would just like to point out that that older man in the red shirt has a leaf on his shoulder from where we were earlier throwing them in the air like children.
I'll have photos from the opening and final installation for you asap!
For this installation, I wanted to take the feeling of being in a birch forest and bring it into the gallery-- the look, the sounds, the way light filters down to you... This idea began over a year ago, while I was in Michigan working with Meadow Brook Theatre. I had this clever notion to make paper birch trees out of paper. It worked to a point, but the "trees" didn't really stand up on their own. They felt they needed to be a part of something larger. I came back to the idea during my residency with ISLAND (Institute for Sustainable Learning, Art, & Natural Design) in 2011, when I was actually in a place that had birch forests. It wasn't just the beauty of the trees that kept coming back again and again to capture my interest, but the stillness of the forest, the bird sounds, summer cicadas, wind rustling through the branches, and the crunch of leaves under my feet. This over-all "feeling" of a forest lodged its self somewhere in the back of my mind, lurking in wait for that perfect opportunity to be realized.
Finished wall, a job well done.
Now onto the trees....
Starting to look like a forest...
And, artist talk... go.
I would just like to point out that that older man in the red shirt has a leaf on his shoulder from where we were earlier throwing them in the air like children.
I'll have photos from the opening and final installation for you asap!
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Threads: Chinchero, a video
My dear friend and fellow artist/fulbright scholar Maria Lino, was in Cusco in January, and while she was here, she did some video for her fulbright project at the CTTC! She's got the first edit up on Vimeo, and it's lovely. Definitely take the time to check it out.
Threads: Chinchero
Threads: Chinchero
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