Category: Art
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I AM WATER Billboard Campaign, 2022
https://gofund.me/7c282b36 Hi, All! Lyn Horton, here. I am raising $1000 so that I can have my photo, above, placed on the billboard on the left on Route 7 in Great Barrington, MA (see photo below). This billboard is meant to raise awareness about water, its preciousness, and its impending scarcity. It is a part of […]
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Thirty-Four Photographs,2021-2
In 2021, I took this picture of apple tree branches spread out on my drawing table. I had to stand on a stool and hold the camera about eight feet above the surface in order to frame the entire image. After I took this picture, I began to do this drawing. Once I completed this […]
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Black Wall Drawing, 2013
At one point, I decided to leave working on paper behind and managed to drop any mistrust of my capacity to draw a coherent statement on the wall. This is one of my first attempts on my studio wall; I painted it out when I decided to do another. The piece is seventy-two inches in […]
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My body, my earth, my activism
Originally posted on Lyn Horton:
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… -
Metaphysical Alphabet 1-20, 2022
The major intention of my artwork as a whole is to communicate ideas, compounded with a background in conceptual art, minimalism, and a desire to draw rather than paint. In the course of 2021, my focus was to reboot an art language that had essentially lost its breath during 2020 when I replaced doing art […]
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Branches and Lines, 2022
Branches and Lines is very large. It is based on the photograph below. This photograph was taken on my drawing table in my North Adams studio. I scattered apple tree branches across the table randomly to document them. The branches were part of a sculpture that I placed outside when I lived in Worthington to […]
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The Beginning of Everything, 2022
The adjusted photograph below is the first image phase of projects going forward involving twigs and branches. The above image evolved into the image below, clearing the way for understanding how a Metaphysical Alphabet is born.
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Grasses 1, 2, 3, 2021
These drawings manifest a turn from concentrating on drawing images of trees which occupied me for a while. I foraged through my Instagram images of grasses that I took on my Sunday walks in Worthington, MA to choose subjects for these three drawings, which are, in themselves, abstractions of the photographs. All of the drawings […]
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