Bridget Conn
Friday, October 18 - 11:00AM to 11:45AM
UNCC Center City Building // 204 Lecture Hall
Handcrafted Auguries deals with my evolving themes of ritual, tradition, andinheritance, as they blend with nature and science. I find equal wonder in thetraditional "women's work" activities of baking and cooking as I do in studyinggeography, astronomy and biology. These images are created to express the wonder Isee in the every day; the lurking sense of order and sacredness that imbues even themost mundane of objects. I strive to cross-breed the spiritual and the analytical, ratherthan separate them into two distinct languages.
Printing images onto tea bags satisfies my personal conceptual concerns of working with a material that holds significance to me the ritual of morning tea that I have observed since I was a child. I drink from every tea bag that is used, dry it, empty it, and digitally print a portion of the image onto it. Much like my training in traditionaldarkroom photography, the image is "developed", in this case by hand, as I painthighlights, shadows and color into the image with watercolor crayon and pencil. Thedried stains of the tea bag remain and are integrated, layers of visual texture arecreated, and the passage of time is implied.
Dialogue and critique are important to the SPE mission.
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