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)

Fini

Breastplate II_Battaglia ii_Let us not forget the silver-headed minnows

Oil & pencil on paper

2010

520 x 380MM