Seeds

The Seeds series is a prayerful reflection on the 2024 US Presidential Election. As I prepared for a  pattern/tesselation studio class with my university students this fall and worked on examples to guide them a new brushprint pattern developed. It is reminiscent of seeds and conversely bullets, each with their ovular point shape and extreme potential for change. As they were printed across the page the overlap with some of the primary issues of the upcoming election became apparent. As a prayer-filled practice in the week leading up to the election I handprinted ten 5.5”x7” watercolors that will be offered November 5 for $76 (a nod to the US founding date). Five are oriented horizontally and five vertically. The reflection questions to pair with these offerings are: How do you consider plants and the land? What seeds are you cultivating? Some seed conversations that influenced this work include the Restoration of the Klamath River Basin by Native Indigenous Tribes, the ongoing marvel that is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the architecture of Hiroshi Nakamura (specifically Library in the Earth), the Future Library manuscript project, and Ada Limón's You are Here project, in addition to the seed art pictures at state and county fairs. 

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