• Floating Leaf 1-4, 2024-25

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    This series of four drawings began haphazardly to reconcile language, image, and natural form into how they can come together sensibly. Once again I chose an Oriental screen painting format to work with this subject matter. They are each 60 inches long and 22-1/4 inches wide. The idea for a leaf “to float” started with…

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  • Transformations 1-4, 2024

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    This post includes the photos I took in my studio of the drawings I did in Sol LeWitt’s studio. The photographs differ in lighting and resolution. To appreciate them without the story may now be a challenge, although, in the long run, the story of the process helps to understand them.

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  • Repeated Forms 1-6, 2024

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    After spending the winter of 2024 taking pictures of the drying leaves and flowers on my studio table, which turned into the photograph series Leaves and Flowers 1-100, 2023-24, I could only imagine myself drawing from the photographs. I am obsessed with natural form because I live in a city. And I want to make…

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  • Leaves and Flowers 1 – 100, 2023-24

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    In the late fall of 2023, on my studio table, I began assembling the leaves that I cut from my house plants with the petals of the lilies that dropped off the gorgeous bouquets that decorated the dining table of a friend with whom I used to dine every weekend. I started photographing them. The…

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  • Goldmine Brook: A Sacred Place

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    Goldmine Brook, 2011 video from Lyn Horton on Vimeo. This day might have been one of pain. Without anyone to accompany me. The music that accompanies it might indicate that. I found this by mistake on my computer. Reviewing it triggered an entirely new language which I need to pursue. Hope I have time. I…

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  • Transparent Leaves, 2024

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    This drawing was created out of the desire to return to the studio after a two-week bout with Covid. Being sick with the virus was the first and only time I had contracted it. The format for the work deals with several elements and patterns I had already used in the past. I dove into…

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