Plants
And my second piece - again, I may tweak it further, but it's taking longer and longer between tweaks...
The Slightest Disturbance features a Rana ridibunda or the synonymous Pelophylax ridibundus and is a mixed media relief piece made out of 3P Quick Cure Clay and acrylic on a 6x8" birch panel.
I'm not certain this is completely finished yet, but it's close.
This piece is tentatively titled Every Side is North. It is 3P Quick Cure Clay and acrylic on a 6x6" birch panel.
As you might have noticed in USM's recent press release about my upcoming exhibitions, toward the end of this month I'll begin a five-and-a-half week residency in the Pays'art program at La Maison Verte in Marnay-sur-Seine, France. I'm very excited, as this residency takes place at the Jardin Botanique de Marnay-sur-Seine; I love working with plants both professionally as well as having a houseplant addiction, so this is a great fit. La Maison Verte has a "Final Friday" opening each month, and so I will have an exhibition on June 24th. In addition, they have arranged for the program's artists in residence to participate in Art & Jardins 2016 on June 25th and 26th.
If I have any readers who have experience with the region and can share any travel advice, I'd be grateful to hear it!
Here's a neat article from The New York Times on one of the plants I work with in my interactive installations, the Mimosa pudica or "sensitive plant." I do have to qualify their results, however, because none of the plants I've grown has ever stopped recoiling from human touch/interaction. I wonder just how repeated their "repeated exposure" was.
