• My body, my earth, my activism, 2020-2

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    It is June 25, 2022, the day after the Supreme Court of the United States began to take away our human rights with the reversal of Roe V. Wade, and the Republican party could blatantly roll out its conspiracy to uproot our freedoms. Two and a half years ago, I was on the cusp of…

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  • Twigs, 2020

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    These small drawings came out of seeing a tiny pile of twigs on my drawing table. The twigs had broken off apple tree branches with which I was making a large sculpture. I made the little pile because I knew that there was something interesting there. In order to find the vision I imagined I…

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  • Doubles, 2020

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    These drawings are derived from photographs that were taken of the hanging wrapped branch sculptures, the All Tied Up Series (https://lynhorton.net/category/art/2019/). Individual photographs were traced along a dividing line placed on a 15 inch by 11 inch piece of paper. The same traced image was then flipped and positioned in the other side of the…

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  • Transformation from the Root, #1-5, 2020

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      These pieces are all on canvas. They each measure sixty inches in height by twenty-two inches in width. They are made with acrylic, colored pencil and marker. The first layer is acrylic and forms the background. The second layer traces the shapes left by the dripping paint with permanent silver marking pen. The last…

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  • My Artist Story

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    In 1978, my husband and I moved to Western Massachusetts from Buffalo, NY. We bought a house neither of us had the financial backing to support. Through innumerable life changes, I have survived only by living here. It is now 2020. The collective global society is going through a vast economic, emotional tempest due to…

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  • All Tied Up Series, 2019-20

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    This series was started in the Fall of 2019. The branches are trimmings from a winter-killed holly bush and cuttings from two apple trees by my terrace. The series will continue slowly as I collect new branches. They carry on from earlier installation pieces done in my studio in 2018. My intention is to highlight…

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