New Work
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These new works on paper come out of several years on a deep dive into color, the origins of pigments and color theory. Oxides, are one of the oldest pigments available and provide a wonderful range of warm tones you see here from soft yellow to purple into blacks. The blue is inspired by indigo a plant based color that has a deep history world wide in dye. This dye was developing in several cultures around the globe simultaneously as if mother earth said we need blue.
So with my deep connection to machines and tools I began to play with oxidizing the tools and machine bits - what you see here are some of the recent results of this journey I am happily traveling.
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. A tool is often passed generation to generation or mentor to mentee. These items hold a glimmer of the maker’s working past — the knowledge and important hand skills they share with us. Perhaps they even carry a spirit to guide us in our own pursuits? I always feel closer to those whose treasured tools become part of my studio — the evidence of their hands worn into the metal. 24 x 15 -Photo: Nora Quinn Garnett
. These shears were found in an antique shop far from my suburban home. They were rusty and badly bent but I was bewitched. Was this very tool passed from parent to child with the skills needed to sharpen and, perhaps, customize them? I can only imagine the strength, stamina, and speed needed to shear a frantic sheep which is held such that they are not injured. 24 x 15 -Photo: Nora Quinn Garnett
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. A tool is often passed generation to generation or mentor to mentee. These items hold a glimmer of the maker’s working past — the knowledge and important hand skills they share with us. Perhaps they even carry a spirit to guide us in our own pursuits? I always feel closer to those whose treasured tools become part of my studio — the evidence of their hands worn into the metal. 24 x 15 -Photo: Nora Quinn Garnett