“Of Moon and Skeletal Pennycress”
Reflection Collection, created in Northern New Mexico*
5.75 x 8.25 inches
Watercolor crayon, cyanotype drawing, and chalk pencil on paper (unframed)
By Claire Coté
ClaireCote.com · @clairecotearts
Statement:
My work invites curiosity, care and connection to self and ecology of place. I make art as a practice of slowing down and noticing. In these mixed media cyanotype works on paper, ethereal botanical forms interact with abstract shapes gathered from the landscape. The Reflection Collection celebrates the textural experience of microclimates and plant species as well as the changing color symphony of light in my Northern New Mexico homeplace.
To make the work I settle into a place, cultivating gentle curiosity…explore. absorb. wait. watch. listen. Plein air interactions of shadow, wind and weather reveal intricate, ephemeral, plant forms and passing cloud shapes. Layers of drawing accumulate; the cyanotype process is completed outdoors with sun and water. These art “rituals” weave connection with this place and generate wonder and reverence.
* T h e s e w o r k s w e r e c r e a t e d o n t h e u n c e d e d l a n d s o f t h e U t e , P u e b l o , l a n d s i n w h a t i s n o w c a l l e d S u n s h i n e V a l l e y i n N o r t h er n N e w M e x i c o . a t N a t i v e-l a n d .c a
“Of Moon and Skeletal Pennycress”
Reflection Collection, created in Northern New Mexico*
5.75 x 8.25 inches
Watercolor crayon, cyanotype drawing, and chalk pencil on paper (unframed)
By Claire Coté
ClaireCote.com · @clairecotearts
Statement:
My work invites curiosity, care and connection to self and ecology of place. I make art as a practice of slowing down and noticing. In these mixed media cyanotype works on paper, ethereal botanical forms interact with abstract shapes gathered from the landscape. The Reflection Collection celebrates the textural experience of microclimates and plant species as well as the changing color symphony of light in my Northern New Mexico homeplace.
To make the work I settle into a place, cultivating gentle curiosity…explore. absorb. wait. watch. listen. Plein air interactions of shadow, wind and weather reveal intricate, ephemeral, plant forms and passing cloud shapes. Layers of drawing accumulate; the cyanotype process is completed outdoors with sun and water. These art “rituals” weave connection with this place and generate wonder and reverence.
* T h e s e w o r k s w e r e c r e a t e d o n t h e u n c e d e d l a n d s o f t h e U t e , P u e b l o , l a n d s i n w h a t i s n o w c a l l e d S u n s h i n e V a l l e y i n N o r t h er n N e w M e x i c o . a t N a t i v e-l a n d .c a
