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Friday Favorite: Val Britton

2/3/2012

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This Friday’s Feature artist is Val Britton!
I love the intricacy of her worldscape series and admire her deeply personal motivation for her work. 

From  her artist statement:
I make immersive, collaged works on paper that draw on the language of maps. The impetus for this body of work was my longing to connect to my father, a truck driver who drove eighteen-wheelers across the country; he died when I was a teenager. Based on road maps of the United States, routes my father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration, mutation, and fragmentation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know.

My mixed media abstractions map not only physical locations but also psychological and emotional spaces.

Painting through staining, seepage, and absorption becomes a metaphor for the fluidity of remembering, mimicking the geologic layers that constitute memories.

Traveling, navigating routes, mapping our experiences, making choices at a crossroads, viewing purpose as a destination: these common metaphors link experiencing life with the notion of a journey. In my work I often think about how the retelling of our stories, the reconstruction of our journeys, helps us make sense of the now, and how the retelling is its own journey. Mapping serves as a metaphor for searching, an implication of the unknown in wide, open spaces, and a trace of how we see where we've been.
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worldscape I, 2010, paper construction with ink and tape, approximately 43 x 43 inches
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worldscape II, 2010, paper construction with ink and tape, approximately 4.5 x 5 feet
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worldscape III, 2010, paper construction with ink and tape, approximately 9 x 9 feet
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worldscape VI, 2011, paper construction with ink and tape, approximately 38 x 30 inches
To find out more about Val Britton and her work, visit her website!

TGIF!
Mary^
8 Comments
Kala link
2/2/2012 09:14:03 pm

I love the details and the story behind the art..."making choices at crossroads", love how the metaphors reflect the art:)

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Trina (Trina's Clay Creations) link
2/2/2012 09:33:18 pm

I love how she came to create her art, and what she says about it:

"In my work I often think about how the retelling of our stories, the reconstruction of our journeys, helps us make sense of the now, and how the retelling is its own journey."

Awesome, thanks for introducing Val to us!

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Kim @justByou link
2/2/2012 11:48:12 pm

Excellent feature! I love the "mapping our experiences" and so much of what she says. Beautiful art to top it all off!
~Kim

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gloria link
2/2/2012 11:49:51 pm

Wow, amazing details and great story. The worldscapes of course make me think of our journey in this life. Wonderful work. Thanks for sharing. and a thumbs up to Val.

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Keeping It Indie
2/3/2012 01:06:56 am

You always find the most interesting geometric artwork. The texture and depth in this work is so amazing. Lovely.

Happy Friday - Brandi

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Rose link
2/3/2012 02:06:46 am

Hopping over here from the Etsy Blog Team. :)

Very interesting work! So unique.

<a href=http://www.randomcreativeart.com/2012/02/friday-feature-valentines-day-cards.html>Link up your Friday Feature post with me!</a>

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Angela @ farragio link
2/4/2012 05:47:26 am

Amazing art!

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geckostone
2/4/2012 10:59:36 pm

Wow, Val's art is brilliant and I love her statement! What a way to think of maps, I love it!!!

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