Calm Forest Wind's

Aspiring Artist/ Designer

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First day in the studio last year at ocad!

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For woman artists , the problematics of self representation have remained inextricably bound up with the woman"s internalization of the images of her "otherness": mirror of male desire, a role, an image, a value, the fetishizes woman attempts to locate herself to affirm her subjectivity within the rectangular space of another fetishizes- ironically enough, the mirror if nature"- Chadwick

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"To create is my joy. I don't care what it is....when you stop creating, all you can do is destroy: for nobody can stand up- without moveing- on the wheel of fate. - Claude Cahun , "Sappho the Misunderstood"

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Went on my first foraging walk of the year , many more to come these next few warm months

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The sun is shining and springs around the corner :)

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Crop if my latest - stefanie gogan

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New work in progress

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In progress

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Purple phase I'm in

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Works in progress

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Installation shot - explore ing support and surface

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Beautiful natural dye colors , cochineal alum, cochineal iron, plain Brazil wood , brazilwood and rust water

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Playing around in the studio

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Works in progress , indigo , cochineal Brazil wood natural dyes and batik technique

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Beautiful natural dye colors , cochineal alum, cochineal iron, plain Brazil wood , brazilwood and rust water