Winter Open Studios

For the past 8 weeks I’ve been working like crazy to get ready for Winter Open Studios at the ICB Building the first weekend in December. WOS didn’t happen last year because of the #*@! pandemic, but this year we are back! I’m super excited about getting my work up on the walls and having visitors see it for the first time. I did a lot of experimentation in early fall with cyanotype. I used feathers that I’ve been picking up over the past four years, along with an actual small dead snake - these are things I’ve found on walks in my neighborhood, and in this season of regeneration and rebirth after covid, I’m thinking about what is used, discarded and put back into circulation. What makes us fly, then fall. How we pick ourselves up again and begin anew. I made collages with these cyanotypes and the work was dark and moody as I blended in 50 year old greenstamp books, pages from outdated self help books and old dictionaries. Things that used to tell us exactly what things meant, exactly how much to save, exactly what to do to be happy - things that didn’t actually work. Yet, here we are - still moving, still hoping, finding new ways to be.