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Update September 2008 What a relief to get back to my studio after a very busy term teaching! Despite the fact that my studio hours are often longer, I've been happily working this rainy summer on multiple projects. I still need more hours in the day! |
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Reading the Field is on view at the AK Collings Gallery in Port Hope until September 28. This work continues the exploration of the history of my markmaking in print. Selected proofs on Japanese paper are recombined with new printed and painted imagery using a modified wetmounting technique to create another reading of this information. |
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My fall Loop show has been postponed until June 2009. This circumstance has allowed me to undertake a larger project I have been thinking about for a number of years. I am currently working on a suite of 10 drypoint images 18" X18" of botanically correct flower heads that have been introduced to Canada over time and are now considered local wildflowers. The images will be printed on gampi tissue. I would like to hang the entire collection of prints in a grid that is made to fill the exhibition space. Each sheet of gampi tissue will be suspended from the wall by pins so that the prints are animated, shifting and rustling like a field. This work continues my interest in collecting, categorizing and displaying, as well as the language we use to describe an experience of the world--formal, colloquial, introduction, naturalized, native, wild. . . even as that experience is changing. |
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I will be attending the Mid-America Print Conference in Fargo, North Dakota October 1-5 and talking about my work as part of a panel discussion entitiled The Martha Stewart Affectation: Printspaces Redefined. (Really). I haven't decided yet whether my Martha Stewart Mantra is the obvious "I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas." or "I find that when you have an interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing." (Ah, popular culture, consumption, materialism . . .) I will be showing washi prints and talking about my ideas and techniques in November at the Japanese Paper Place. The Japanese Paper Place |
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