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Self Portrait as Great Horned Owl #1

$750.00

Fine line marker and watercolor on paper, 2022

The first of my animism series and the most personal of my pleas to join the more-than-human world around me. This series explores the fact that there is no meaningful boundary between “nature” and our human-constructed ideas of society. We are all kin. That is not a metaphor. When I moved to the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2022, I could hear the Great Horned Owls sing their duets each night outside our window. Each day, in my studio, I did my best to sing back.

This original framed mixed media artwork features celestial watercolor drips underneath intricate fine-line marker ink on paper. The artwork is presented in a high quality custom walnut frame with double mat which is reflected in the price.

Fine line marker and watercolor on paper, 2022

The first of my animism series and the most personal of my pleas to join the more-than-human world around me. This series explores the fact that there is no meaningful boundary between “nature” and our human-constructed ideas of society. We are all kin. That is not a metaphor. When I moved to the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2022, I could hear the Great Horned Owls sing their duets each night outside our window. Each day, in my studio, I did my best to sing back.

This original framed mixed media artwork features celestial watercolor drips underneath intricate fine-line marker ink on paper. The artwork is presented in a high quality custom walnut frame with double mat which is reflected in the price.

The Process of Communing

I was bewitched by the eyes. How can one not be? Their incandescent yellow is unmissable. But how would I keep that light glowing while drawing close its feather mantle? I focused on the texture of each plume, with details as gestures, keeping the spaces open between them to allow the question of our faces to merge. Our owlness grew cloud-solid, and dawn-sharp tiny pen flick after tiny flick.

Artwork Details

Fine liner marker and watercolor on paper

Size (framed) 15.5” by 12’5” in double mat and custom walnut frame.

 

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