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Guest Artist September 2009 Guest Artist – Kim Soares "As a child I was a modern day hunter/gatherer of magical bits and pieces of this earth. Inside every rock and shell I would see a universe. I would come home from school each day with my lunchbox full of the days’ treasures. Feathers, bones, dried insects – on a particularly wonderful day a petrified lizard – would all end up lovingly arranged on my shelves and windowsills. I spent hours touching and playing with them every day. My studio now resembles an archeological dig comprised of fabrics, beads, bones, feathers, bits of fur, dried insects, skulls, shells, stones and dried foliage. For the past 15 years I have been making ceremonial art and leather journals -weaving these discarded and forgotten things of nature into tools for people to use to reclaim those forgotten and discarded parts of themselves. Ideally, I'd like the viewer to have an immediate visceral response to my work, even if it's not immediately understood, and to leave with not only a renewed sense of self, but some sense of primordial connection to everything and everyone on this planet."
________________________________________________________ September 2009 Guest Artist - Dan McCann “The art that I make is of a fondness for things that are a bit off centered. To hold an object that has no meaning or value to others, I take and give it life, give it meaning.”
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