I opened the studio up for First Friday in December, it was really good to reorganize it from a strictly working space to a quasi-exhibition space if just for the night and I'm planning on having an open studio every three months so watch out for March. Currently I am working on a series of mixed media prints that will eventually inform the large silk print and embroidery pieces I have hanging on my wall. They are inspired by Victorian era Spiritualism' s idea of the Summerland, a paradise in the afterlife created by the thoughts of the souls that live there. Apparently striving for betterment of the soul is really important there so all the ladies in my prints are busy reading, dancing, and mending up animals. Eventually I hope to use these as inspiration for an installation depicting an army of specterly women assembling a dead zoo (Victorian speak for a natural history museum's taxidermy collection). It's in the infancy stages current;y but we'll see where it goes...
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