| Name | Linda Atkinson |
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| Phone | 5403128463 |
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| Name of Work | The Holy in the Everyday |
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| Describe the completed work, including media, size and presentation format. (All art forms are accepted for this call, but there must be a physical representation of the work ready for display. Most often this is a framed and ready-to-hang two dimensional image.) | The Holy in the Everyday |
| Please reflect on how your contemplative practice informed or helped shape the work. | My contemplative practice in making art is an intuitive one. I chose images such as the rushing water and sheltering tree limbs to build the artwork. The angel figured from The Mérode Altarpiece |
| Please reflect on how your deeper exploration of nature informed or helped shape the work. | A wood carving of a turtle climbing onto a limb in the creek was my original idea. I discarded that plan after estimating the amount of carving that would be necessary to complete my idea. I ordered a realistic turtle from Amazon, which I have kept in my living room. Casting about for an alternative idea, I found an image in National Geographic of three turtles sunning on a limb. At this point, I decided to make a collage of my entry.. |
| Please reflect on how your engagement with the text of PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK informed or helped shape the work. | Inside the rough-hewn frame is a collage of hidden objects – a penny, a frog, some turtles, a bird, a fish, a butterfly. This represents my appreciation for Dillard’s essay, “Seeing”. The altar-like format of the piece and the angel represent Dillard’s reverence for nature, and the hidden objects are a testament to Dillard’s attention to the minuscule world around her. |
| What questions has this work prompted you to explore next? | I plan to use the little red-eared slider turtle in another artwork. |
| What did you learn in the process? | From the process, I learned that there are numerous approaches to an artwork, and that following my intuition ultimately leads to the best. |
| This is an original work and I have identified all technology used in the creation of this work in the description of my process above. My typed name stands for my signature. | Linda Atkinson |
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