Elizabeth Addison, Co-Founder (USA)
Brittle Beauty: Pandemania Day 192 - Mandala 092420
Original digital imagery printed on 100% cotton rag paper
20 x 20 inches
Brittle Beauty was created during the Covid-19 pandemic and is part of my Pandemania Days series. During the pandemic, I repurposed my Daily Practice—Visual Journal digital mandala series to document the times. Titled the Pandemania Days series, I posted daily artworks on social media. They responded directly to my engagement with nature, sheltering, and global civil uprising. Each mandala is inspired by, and created from, a photograph taken on my daily pandemic walk; and each is accompanied by a written journal entry.”
Brittle Beauty Journal Entry:
“Thursday, September 24, 2020. The smells, colors, sounds, and sensations of California Autumn are everywhere. A quiet solo walk was grounding after two "crunched" weeks of deadlines. These seem insignificant in light of police violence and tragic losses everywhere and worldwide. Drying, translucent flora filtered beams of light and hope.
Balance - Hills series
Original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on 100% cotton rag paper
16 x 16 inches framed (12 x 12 inches image)
EV 1/1
2025
The Hills print series is a visual love poem to the North Berkeley Hills. Ancient oak woodlands, with coast live oak and California bay laurel, stand sentinel. The scent of California sagebrush hangs in the air, a fragrant reminder of the native shrubs that dot the landscape. Wildflowers bloom in a riot of color, with monkeyflowers, fremontias, and carpenteria adding splashes of yellow, orange, and purple. I walk the hills daily. Their moods and messages communicate something worth contemplating each day.
These hybrid prints are created with original digital imagery, monoprint, monotype, stencil, and other experimental printmaking techniques on 100% cotton rag paper. The circular prints are raised from the substrate, making them subtly dimensional.
Passage - Hills series
Original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on 100% cotton rag paper
16 x 16 inches framed (12 x 12 inches image)
EV 1/2
2024
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