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First Friday | Fire!
After visiting the park with the other Art About artists, I realized that the most powerful text I could use for my artist’s book would be the personal experiences the artists who chose to collaborate with me had upon seeing the forest after the burn. I saw that the purpose of the project was to highlight this important time of transformation from a burned forest and destroyed park infrastructure to a healthy future of the park. In both poetry and prose, with watercolors painted on site in the park on paper handmade with plant fiber inclusions, the book is a visual historical record documenting the state of the forest at this specific point in the ecosystem’s timeline. Turning the pages of the book and pondering the artists’ writings takes time, just as when walking in nature it takes time to see and appreciate the surrounding beauty and complexity.
Donna Thomas's artwork was featured in the Art in the Park exhibit at Big Basin on June 15th, 2024 and is on loan to the Museum for the month of August.
Watch the companion film, "An Artists Book" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfBTzVCfIy4
Event Links
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