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Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
News
Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
News
Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
A Morphology
Taraxacum officinale
Taraxacum officinale (naturalized)
A morphology is a study of the form of animals and plants, as well as the form of words and systems of forms in a language. Here, common dandelion, Taraxacum officinale is positioned by botanical latin, composition and scale to suggest "value." Similarly a pattern derived from the same dissection is 'naturalized': escaped, multiplied, and reordered to become domestic culture. Although historically useful and found across the globe, dandelion is now most commonly thought of not as a beautiful, successful and desirable immigrant, but as an aggressive, noxious, invader.
In A Morphology, Veil, the naturalized matrix is printed repeatedly on translucent Japanese Gampi paper then joined to drape through an interior. Its delicate materiality shifts and moves in any breeze. Although emphatically of the domestic interior, it is a reminder of a vale of dandelions in a spring breeze. Installation photos from Liz Parkinson: Pattern and Preoccupation, 2010 at The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, an historic flour mill.
Patterns of flocking superimposed on the images further suggests both rich domesticity and perhaps a spreading disorder.
Taraxacum officinale and Taraxacum officinale (naturalized), 90x121cm, drypoint on BFK Rives with flocking. $1800 each
