
Oh boy, it’s slow going at the moment, but the skeleton is transferred. I’ve taken a few more pictures for reference and begun drawing this metal wall/ barrier. I have drawn a little every day, but I’ve only had 15 minutes or so at a time.
So it’s at this sort of ugly stage but hopefully it won’t be for long. It’s going to be tricky figuring out how not to keep smudging everything. It doesn’t feel quite natural to start in the upper right hand corner with the smaller branches, but I’m left handed and if I start with the trunk I’ll be constantly smudging the pencil with my hand.
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My work deals with themes of human and nonhuman intelligence, and what it means to return home when the nature of home itself is nebulous and undefined. As an interdisciplinary artist with homebases in painting and printmaking, I explore the interstitial spaces between these and other media, relishing the borderlands–the slippage between idea and medium. Lens based ways of looking interact with a fierce love of materiality that echoes the earth itself, and the ways in which humanity interacts with the homeostatic systems that comprise Gaia, the living earth.
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