The latest look of this piece, a process of experimentation. Somehow this was strongly suggested by Cindy's claw/branch like hand so the next steps seemed to be pods with sleeping and awakening women in them.
Who knew that artists liked to talk about their work so much! The panel discussion among the collaborative artist groups went on longer that the moderator, David Francis, had planned but it was all very interesting and great to hear all the passionate explanations of process and ideas. The show is up for an extra month I hear, so it'll be at the Shoreline City Hall until mid-August. This is what the piece looks like framed (by Phoenix Art and Restoration in Shoreline), really happy with it! Kind of set into a box lined with black cloth and deep enough to protect the 3 dimensional aspects. There is going to be a "question and answer" element to the opening from 4-6 PM at Shoreline City Hall for the show "Cross-Pollination-Collaboration in the Arts". Cindy and Monica will also each have a piece representing some of the work we have done on our own. Come see us for your chance to grill us on work methods, etc! Or just for the heck of it! Experimenting with paper mache, collages and encaustic. We are looking for ways to keep the weight of the pieces lower than the clay was allowing. As the work becomes larger, weight becomes an issue.
Well here it is September and the unusually hot summer is fading and it is time for spending long hours in the studio. (And at the paying job, which sadly takes away time in the studio for both of us.) There are always times of re-assessment and this is one We are examining methods for possible toxicity as well as looking at ways to diminish physical stresses of making the pieces. Doing this work is a joy and we want to keep it that way. We also want to produce more pieces that push this exciting collaboration further and see where it takes us! The art pieces created by Opsins for the 'Blood and Bone' collection were born of a project pushing the boundaries of previous artistic endeavors by Cindy M. Collins and Monica Lisette-Sanchez. They represent the first collaborative project these artists have embarked upon - and these pieces were an exercise in pushing themselves to the edge of comfort zones and old limits. The project melds the artists' very different modus operandi to create new pieces of art strengthened by their experiences with different mediums. The art itself is meant to linger on the border of the macabre and surreal, blending together the emerging three dimensional shapes of body and bone with flashes of colour. The places where the two artists' work found unity or contrast changes the relationship of the image with the viewer from a more literal view into something dreamlike and vivid.
Opsins is the name we have taken for art works that we are doing collaboratively. The word came to our attention in an article in the Guardian about how an octopus can see with it's skin. These opsin are proteins that respond to light and they make possible the "cloaking mechanism of the octopus which can match its skin to its background. Since these are the same proteins that we have in our eyes to make us able to see, we decided to take this name . |
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May 2016
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