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Spoken Seasons Continued...

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Spoken Seasons Natural leaves,  natural pressed flowers, plaster, golden chain, museum wax, black foam board, hot glue, pallet wood, plexiglass, acrylic paint and water (stain), nails and screws 21",  24",  3" Found Object Artist Statement           Spoken seasons, has already been spoken about but if I can hint more into what’s spoken seasons really means even more so now that a shadowbox was created for it, I would begin How a shadowbox works. Shadowbox is used to contain contents within inside of it and it can’t be touched. A shadowbox is meant to keep the outside from coming in. And with spoken seasons, I have created space of natural cycles with my dancing leaf ladies.and I created a shadowbox because these dancing ladies represent the four seasons that we go throughout every year. The seasons are consistent maybe not at all times of the year, but we can always count on them to happen every single year. As humans we love to get our hands...
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Spoken Seasons

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  Spoken Seasons Natural leaves,  natural pressed flowers, plaster, golden chain, museum wax, black foam board 21",  24",  3" Inspiration:                         My research started with the nature around me. I frequently take walks outside and this is when I decided that nature needed to be part of the creation of this piece. Nature is all around us and it is constantly changing and going through it's own processes. I found this interesting to note, so I found certain types of leaves and flowers that I found to be what the seasons resemble and used that to begin my work on this piece. My favorite pieces I chose were the bark and the orange seedlings, which I didn't end up using, but the way they felt in my hands reminded me of when in the movie  Cinderella, the little mice were eating corn for breakfast, and one of the mice, Gus, had many pieces he couldn't carry at once ...
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