Corexit

Penelope sent me this link this afternoon - - - accounts of the health hazards associated with Corexit. This makes for depressing reading, but how can we not?

FLORIDA OIL SPILL LAW - Documenting the Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Breastplate_It is all one water - a finger in a tide pool brings our shores together

with text by Marylinn Kelly

2010

Oil & pencil on paper

560 x 380MM

Breastplate_And the sea on their right, how she murmurs

with text by Pamela Morrison

2010

Oil & pencil on paper

560 x 380MM (v x h)

Standing in the Heart

As the exhibition's opening date approached, friends from the blogging community came on board with this project, many contributing texts for inclusion in the Waters I Have Known series. The responses in Standing in the Heart - An Ocean of Words -  relate specifically to the themes of 'oceans and community'. 

You can follow the threads of this conversation by clicking on the link below -    

http://icelines.blogspot.com/2010/10/invitation-from-me-and-sea.html

STANDING IN THE HEART   |   A Communal Breastplate  & Ocean of Words

2010

Transcribed texts - pencil on gessoed paper

BREASTPLATE III_Rebecca

Breastplate III_And what did she see at the sea (text by Rebecca Loudon)

Oil & pencil on paper

2010

520 x 380MM

and what did she see at the sea

Dire Whelk

Dusky Tegula

Fingered Limpit

Hooded Puncturella

Veiled Chiton

Bat Star

By-the-Wind Sailor

Crumb-of-bread Sponge

Eye Fringed Worm

Sugar Wrack

Frilled Anemone

Bull Kelp

Ghost Shrimp

Sanderling

Walleye Surfperch

Volcano Barnacle

Stiff-footed Sea Cucumber

Leather Star

Innkeeper Worm

Lug Worm

REBECCA LOUDON

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BREASTPLATES (process)

These small paintings on heavy cotton paper have as their compositional 'template' the turtle shell,
a form that references the Gulf crisis and suggests to me the following - 


breastplate
protective shield
sacred space
shelter
multi-chambered heart


each of which we do well to take care of

Breastplate I - Turtle Talk (detail/process)
G  ULF series
Oil on paper
2010

Breastplate II_Let us not forget the silver-headed minnows - (detail/process)

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Breastplate II_Battaglia ii_Let us not forget the silver-headed minnows

Oil & pencil on paper

2010

520 x 380MM

Twenty days, twenty ways

studio process . . .

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Twenty Days, Twenty Ways 

Image portals for Waters I Have Known

The Diversion, Marlborough

2010

Oil on gessoed board

910 x 910MM

Group Dynamic

Process. . . 

I initially thought the painting was finished at this stage, but the longer I lived with it, the more lonesome these images seemed. I realized they were asking for company - a community to wrap around them, to give them purpose and meaning. . .

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Group Dynamic

Image portals for Waters I Have Known

2010

Oil on board

910 x 910MM