My new painting this week is entitled Process.
This painting layers Hawaiian maps, text, metal, ephemera, acrylic paint and media on a small stretched canvas.
Needless to say, I love the process of painting! It grounds me.
This painting layers Hawaiian maps, text, metal, ephemera, acrylic paint and media on a small stretched canvas.
Needless to say, I love the process of painting! It grounds me.
©2012 Mary C. Nasser, Process, mixed-media/acrylic on canvas, 5 x 7 inches
Last week, Melisa asked a great question about my art:
I was wondering, is there a reason you always use maps of Hawaii and of nowhere else?
Is Hawaii significant to you?
It’s a terrific question, one that others often ask, and that I enjoy answering!
I love learning as much as I can about geological processes! In particular, I am fascinated with the forces inside the earth can cause sudden drastic change, especially volcanoes! During my artist residency at Red Cinder Creativity Center, I had the unique opportunity to live between 2 active and accessible volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii.
I also had the chance to watch landscape being created and stand on the newest land on earth: landscape created by lava hardening into rock, which, in time, will transform into soil where plants will sprout and grow.
Those volcanic landscapes continue to inform and influence my work.
I remain captivated by the idea that geological shifts and transformations seem to parallel both individuals and their relationships: continually changing, varying, shifting and developing, too.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
Hope you're having a wonderful week!
Mary^
I was wondering, is there a reason you always use maps of Hawaii and of nowhere else?
Is Hawaii significant to you?
It’s a terrific question, one that others often ask, and that I enjoy answering!
I love learning as much as I can about geological processes! In particular, I am fascinated with the forces inside the earth can cause sudden drastic change, especially volcanoes! During my artist residency at Red Cinder Creativity Center, I had the unique opportunity to live between 2 active and accessible volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii.
I also had the chance to watch landscape being created and stand on the newest land on earth: landscape created by lava hardening into rock, which, in time, will transform into soil where plants will sprout and grow.
Those volcanic landscapes continue to inform and influence my work.
I remain captivated by the idea that geological shifts and transformations seem to parallel both individuals and their relationships: continually changing, varying, shifting and developing, too.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
Hope you're having a wonderful week!
Mary^
