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Pressures, 51” x 14’. Graphite, charcoal, and synthetic resin on vellum overlays on Stonehenge, 2009. (The lighting in the room had a colored cast to it— but throwing the photo into B&W would have missed the yellowed tint of the vellum overlays.)

Pressures

November 28, 2023

Having had the span of a 13 year hiatus gave me the critical distance to finally understand this piece which has real importance to me as an artist and is significant to my life as a human.

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In Philosophy of Art Tags feminist art, graphite drawing, grad school, meaning of art, what does it mean to master your mind, batch3
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Death to the Dictator

November 8, 2022

I brought this recent drawing, “Death To the Dictator”, to IlluXCon 2022. Like most of my work, when I look at it, I remember where I was or what was happening at the time, perhaps down to what music I was listening to. All of my work is freighted with meaning for me, it becomes a sticky note of my space in the world…

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In Philosophy of Art, Life of an artist, Fine Art Tags batch1, resistance, graphite drawing, mushrooms, fungi, ink caps

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