Artwork Showcase – jpopen studios

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City Emergence
This process drawing was created as a part of a series I call “Songs of Urban Ecology.” When I first started the practice of process drawing, I was living in Spain, trying to capture the movement of water by layering oil pastels and would take photos to create movies out of them....

City Emergence
CIty Emergence: Still from Process Drawing
A first draft of a Song to Urban Ecology about Olmsted Park, which is near my house, next to Jamaica Way. There is natural beauty, with a cathedral of trees and a symphony of birds, that is made more special by human interruptions like traffic and sirens....

CIty Emergence: Still from Process Drawing
City Emergence: Embroidery
Inspired by the contrast between birds and sirens walking near Ward’s Pond, I created a process drawing of leaves through the spring and summer and create music to go alongside. These drawings are meditations on place, on nature, and on human ecologies....

City Emergence: Embroidery
Emerging Wonder
Emerging Wonder is a place-based drawing documenting bugs and flowers growing mostly in my front garden in Jamaica Plain with some supplemental shots of a side adventure that I took to Ann Arbor during the pandemic lockdown....

Emerging Wonder
Mahtava: Jamaica Plain
Mahtava, which is a movable site specific inflatable art installation, is designed to be a show-piece. Tendrils emerge from a pod that seems to breathe, dangling over the central market, moving and changing colors to create joyful fun while the DJ and others jam out....

Mahtava: Jamaica Plain
Mahtava: Ann Arbor Farmers Market
Mahtava, which is a movable site specific inflatable art installation, is designed to be a show-piece. Tendrils emerge from a pod that seems to breathe, dangling over the central market, moving and changing colors to create joyful fun while the DJ and others jam out....

Mahtava: Ann Arbor Farmers Market
Ubiquitous Obsolescence
On display at Unbound Visual Arts in Brighton, this lamp is created with the combination of a found lamp and salvaged coffee bags. Thinking about how single use items are ubiquitous in our society, I stumbled on a dandelion globe casting an interesting shadow, and the alchemy of imagination, a call for entries, and materials from my regular coffee shop coalesced into this project: a dandelion lamp that casts imagination for re-use alongside mystical shadows....

Ubiquitous Obsolescence

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