Welcome to the New Year and sorry I’m late with my updating the blog.
There’s a lot that’s been happening so into the new work-
The newest project series – ROADMANTIC
I have been doing some commercial VIDEO (if your interested) and I’m working on an art video that accompanies this project which is not yet completed.
Current research:
Is an extension of my tar works which talk visually about – Artic melt, insidious people, Canadian Boomtown, and Co2. – effects- place – space – awareness –
I have been feeling overwhelmed and extremely sad, The Athabasca Tar Sands- place – is a far reaching crisis that is- complicated and interwoven in the fabric of every day life, touching everything on the planet.
The further I go into the information the more I want people to know – awareness.
One of the strange things is how many people that I talk to, know absolutely nothing about Athabasca oil sands, and for that matter anything about the Co2 levels or even where their oil – fuel – products, comes from. funny most people haven’t connected oil to everything making this a very personal issue- awareness can be so many things but I wish there was responsible industry around the mining. -Place
The idea that its happening somewhere else and “not in my yard” is so far from the truth – this touches all existence on the planet – check out Steven Hawking’s rant if you don’t believe me.
In this search for information, I have found amazing products that avoid oil consumption in there offerings and act responsibly towards making money.
In a cut to the case that’s really the issue isn’t it : greed- ego- money- all of which is sited in the new art work that I have prepared.
Info: The Athabasca oil sands or are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada – roughly centered on the boomtown of Fort McMurray. Wikipedia
Yes- I know Wikipedia is not a suitable source, but for this it is a short and sweet description that has been checked.
The newest phase of this project is my understanding that very few people recognize how integrated oil consumption is in daily life; oil has a far reach, and consumption touches everything as it is included as a main ingredient in plastics, rubbers, manmade material, on and on.
With that I painted the fist tar with a shoe painting, this recognizes oil use as personal – from foot to head.
Tar and oil paint on masonite painted with a shoe.
Sculpture-
Collar Works-
michelle as she presents her art components (sculpture, paint, video) as awareness to how expansive, oil consumption, use and talks tp mining irresponsibly at Athabasca oil sands.
Because my monthly blog post has run late, my editing the pictures and information has become- so overwhelming,
I leave the rest of the created work, and conversation until next post. The next post will include: photographic project, sculpture, paintings, writings and drawings. Hope you’ll come on back. -thx