From Kemble Mountain Forest to you

September 28, 2012 by keirartworks Leave a comment

Happy Friday all. Big full moon tomorrow – I plan to hang on firmly to my sense of the ridiculous, & keep it light & good.

In the meantime, wherever you are, I hope you can get outside and roll around in Autumn.

Glorious.

taken September 27th, 5pm.

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And shiny, reflective things…

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“wishbones”, 1999, 6×8″, acrylic and graphite on paper. Sold

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‘Black’. 2014, 36×36, acrylic on dyed cotton.

“Snakeroot”, 6×6″, graphite and acrylic on paper, 1999. Sold

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The one just finished. 60″x72″; $3,350. It’s difficult to understand scale here (thumbnails are same size as my face). This one had me on lock-down for the last two days of its’ fulfillment.

this one is singing now….

#Selfie (Summer 2014 solo show): Round II: Surrender. 24″ Work in progress

plant fire

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I wanted to put the ‘positive’ image on the black ground, and the inverse one on white… Here’s the drawing

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inheritance from two families on my mother’s side: A proud sign from Kennedy Foundry of Owen Sound, hanging on the wall of Circle Bar Ladies’ Hosiery factory, also in Owen Sound, owned and operated by my mom & aunt’s grandparents, Walter and Catherine Keebler.

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