Virginia A. Spiegel

Boundary Waters 31 (North)

Kim Ritter and Judy B. Dales have invited me to participate in New Focus’ 08 to be held at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, OR from December 2008 through February 2009.

Artwork for the exhibit can be no larger than 12″ x12.” I am always happy to work in a small format and this was a good piece to work on during the Invitational Reverse Auction as I could stop and start pretty easily. My inspiration came from my photos of the lovely moss and lichens built up on the north side of trees in the Boundary Waters.

It’s also a little joke in that I had always heard that if you are lost in the woods, you can find north by seeing which side of the trees have moss. My experience on testing this theory is that if the woods is thick enough for you to become lost, the trees usually have moss on all sides!

Boundary Waters 31 (North) - Detail

More information will be posted closer to the exhibition opening.

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