To be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore
Solo exhibition: April 11 - 22, 2018 in the Cell Gallery at Gallery 1313
Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 1 - 6 pm.
Details of a Small Planet
Helen E. C. Melbourne
While not apparent at first glance, this show is about nature, and about the traces humans have left on the world. An exploration of the small interconnected world we live in through abstract mixed media using found objects as a resist to leave traces of the patterns and shapes remaining when the original objects have vanished; from the microscopic to the telescopic.
Unless you look closely, you do not see the effect you have with each object you throw away. All of the pieces in Details of a Small Planet begin with the use of trash as a resist. Most of this work has been developed over the past 18 years but not finished until the past year, except for the map, originally created in the late 1970s, and which has been reworked in the last two years to give it new life and new meaning.
Helen E. C. Melbourne
While not apparent at first glance, this show is about nature, and about the traces humans have left on the world. An exploration of the small interconnected world we live in through abstract mixed media using found objects as a resist to leave traces of the patterns and shapes remaining when the original objects have vanished; from the microscopic to the telescopic.
Unless you look closely, you do not see the effect you have with each object you throw away. All of the pieces in Details of a Small Planet begin with the use of trash as a resist. Most of this work has been developed over the past 18 years but not finished until the past year, except for the map, originally created in the late 1970s, and which has been reworked in the last two years to give it new life and new meaning.
Arbitrary Borders - A curated show
What you will see on my website
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This website is as complex as my life. My activities and involvement in a diverse, multicultural community, and in the arts, are clearly expressed in the images you will see. I am all over the map - but it is all connected. My artistic work weaves my life together into a pattern, a cloth, a substance, a map.
I am fascinated by almost every aspect of our world. I am a community and social activist, a planner, an environmentalist, a gardener, an organizer, a parent, a writer, an artist. I am both outgoing and introverted. I am an observer, a participant, and a leader. I have embraced all the aspects of my life, and this website shows a small part of my complicated, and sometimes very difficult, journey to this place in my senior years. I have, and will continue to, reinvent myself. Through my art and my blog, I hope to share some of my fascination and understanding of the world we all share, and visions for the future, and hopefully a bit of wisdom and insight along the way. This is not a typical arts portfolio - but rather a journal, a history, and a place to share my continuing joy in creating and my thoughts about our world. I hope you will find it interesting, a bit challenging, and perhaps even a bit inspiring. |
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