LARA MELLON

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Birds on a Wire, at Sunrise - 2024 01 09

These were hard to send off on exhibit, but as always I trust that the new owner will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed discovering and creating them. I say ‘discovering’ for the multiple layers of process my mixed media works go through before being declared finished. Each layer built up or sanded down reveals more of what could be. The ‘creating’ bit happens when the story starts to take shape; in this case with little clay huts and homes (themselves weathered and almost returned back to the earth); and then the inclusion of an old nail, wire and small birds attached, referencing the connection to the earth’s magnetic force that guides and directs migration; and as well symbolic of the wire taken from the earth to fence our lands, to contain or to protect.