Process & Ongoing Research – D'Andrea Bowie

Process & Ongoing Research

d_andreabowie

On the go makin stuff #wip ♥️

On the go
makin stuff #wip ♥️

eclipse 2024 tucked comfortably within a rauc

eclipse 2024

tucked comfortably within
a raucous ecotone

listening deeply to springs awakening

feeling what the turning sounds like

(1st photo @navawaxman_m and video 🙏)

Sound up! 📣 I’ve never experienced so many p

Sound up! 📣
I’ve never experienced so many peepers this loud at mid day! yup it’s spring! 🐸💚 (day before eclipse)

Waiting on spring 💚🌱 For a New Beginning by

Waiting on spring 💚🌱 For a New Beginning by John O’Donohue (last slide) 🛝

Big walls at our new place means I fold laundry be

Big walls at our new place means I fold laundry below this series, Affordance from 2017. Material and process led mixing well with the domestic, very fitting ♥️

Harvesting chamomile, 🥭climbing mango trees, le

Harvesting chamomile, 🥭climbing mango trees, learning, growing, happy int women’s day esp to my daughter in India right now and the group of intrepid young women she is traveling with- they are spending the month on Dr Vandana Shiva’s farm, Navdanya as part of their time at @yipsweden I can’t wait to hear every detail! Miss u!! So much love for the next generation ♥️

Thx @vandanashiva1 for your courageous efforts in fighting for this planet 🌏 and welcoming all to learn from you. 🌱✨

(Last slide is just one of her many books, you can learn more about her on many podcasts and also highly recommend the documentary, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva)

Outside using chop saw, they came to see what was

Outside using chop saw, they came to see what was happening?

Remember? During the heat of summer in my old ga

Remember?

During the heat of summer in my old garage studio when I was running my test kiln non stop casting recycled glass in molds I was banging out I may have said (exhausted, sweaty and hot, out loud even) ‘someone take my kiln away’. Well, I guess the kiln gods heard me and guess what.. my new studio, as glorious as it is (w a separate kiln studio even) said ok. We can do that for you. The electrical panel housed in a 160 yr old school house basement is a hot mess. Waiting on plans for three-phase zoning (ALL THE POWER). Frustration, disappointment, sure but I did say that thing about not having a kiln and so I need to switch my thinking and take the opportunity this delay brings. Part of that work is to take a long look back.

Steel work made some years ago, resonating with work I’m burnishing in my heart and mind ♥️

Egyptian heiroglyphics refer to glass as ‘stone

Egyptian heiroglyphics refer to glass as ‘stone that flows’ or ‘liquid stone’ while ancient Greek texts describe glass as ‘molten stone’. And what about those that figured out how to turn sand and dust into something beautiful? I love nothing more than to time travel while making and imagine those days.

Throughout my practice it might be confusing to see work made in a variety of materials and methodologies.. but what is exciting (to me) as I work with these materials are not random chance encounters, but the characteristic likeness and compatibilities each share, how might they relate and what can their collaboration achieve? Being fluent in the vernacular of sculpting satisfies a deep curiosity and wonder of how things are made and opens a world of potentialities.

I’ve recently discovered, cold working glass shares a lot of the same methodologies as stone carving- but on a much smaller scale than carving large granite boulders w @michaelbelmore

And! I’m using SILICON CARBIDE in various grits to hand polish surfaces- GRIT! which I have on hand as I’ve used it in glaze making to create some of my favourite surfaces full of pits and craters.

The silicon carbide I’m using is lab made but it’s interesting to think about where it is naturally occurring- as the rare mineral moissanite found in meteorite samples, an extraterrestrial gift from outside of our solar system. 🪐

*important to note for those wishing to work w these materials please practice safety, protect yr lungs and yr body and keep studio properly ventilated and clean. 🧼 What’s not pictured is me masked and extensive safety precautions in place. (Thx @morgangilb 4 entertaining my nerd material musings 💕)

cleave :to adhere firmly or closely or loyally :

cleave

:to adhere firmly or closely or loyally
:to divide by or as if by a cutting blow
:to split especially along the grain

daily walking
listening

minding/mending heart

The trees The grass The wind
Thegravelcrunch Theiceslip

round the bend
SkyHi Ancestor
Knocks me Over
a command a prayer

a single word resounds
thru-me-thru-us

Cleave

echos weeping
I cleave
I was cleaved
we are cleaving

Happy birthday Michael! 🥳 We are in Saugatuck t

Happy birthday Michael! 🥳
We are in Saugatuck to take home Michael’s beautiful show @saugatuck_arts where he came last fall for a residency. Thanks to all at the Saugatuck Arts Center for the warm welcome into yr community ❤️ @michaelbelmore

Chicago had the clay goods/godess’s 💯 @artin

Chicago had the clay goods/godess’s 💯
@artinstitutechi
slides…
2. Inaba Chikako #inabachikako
3. Hiruma Kazuyo #hirumakazuyo
4. Tanaka Yū #tanakayu
5. Yamaguchi Mio #yamaguchimio
6. Shingū Sayaka #shingusayaka
7. Tanaka Tomomi #tanakatomomi
8. Hosono Hitomi #hosonohitomi
9. Fukumoto Fuku #fukumotofuku
Just a few greats!

So this finally happened! I discovered Ruth Duckwo

So this finally happened! I discovered Ruth Duckworth’s work many yrs ago and have been blown away since. Finding decent pictures of her work was difficult so I promised myself to visit Chicago to see it in person one day. ‘Clouds over Michigan’ has recently been installed at the University of Chicago’s library and I was lucky to catch her show up at the Smart museum of art on campus where she taught for 15 years. Bucket list check 🪣 ✔️ Duckworth is an incredibly important sculptor to me, she carved stone for many years before settling into sculpting with clay. A sculptor using clay. Seeing her work was amazing and exceeded all expectations! thx to my sidekick for being up to adventuring and a pic of me losing my mind, no words to describe my happiness BEHOLDING in WONDER ❤️ #ruthduckworth

This is the program my daughter is attending in Sw

This is the program my daughter is attending in Sweden rn which has been amazing! Highly recommend, please reach out if you would like to learn more. Next month she will have the opportunity to travel to India and learn from Dr. Vandana Shiva, her seed saving efforts and help w growing food. A great gap year experience 💯 @yipsweden

late on the draw but this year has given me much t

late on the draw but this year has given me much to reflect on and a deep desire to tuck inward.

Completing a mfa gave me the opportunity to create a body of work and really- just so thankful to my family and friends for their understanding and support, helping me find space and time to stay enveloped into my work/play. I made a lot of work! Posted are a few things I’m still thinking about. People often ask about what’s next but I think I’m enjoying looking at all I made and think things thru, something I haven’t done much of these past few years. Excited to have learned more about glass casting in the summer as I move from treating glass as a skin to a cast-able material. I feel really good about this work- and not in a proud puffy way but just super pleased to be in conversation with.. be a part of facilitating material entanglements after getting to know each medium.

Wishing all the best for 2024 ✨

First drawing in new studio, an unexpected stream

First drawing in new studio, an unexpected stream of pastel.. expressing complete frustration, confusion w being a bug in a rug and not able to comprehend what is happening on our planet right now. Overwhelming. I want to understand how and why but the more I dig the more I don’t know. Feeding my family, paying rent.. keeps me going.. heart breaking for those that are not able to do the same… earth turning, be kind, the gift of perspective to all that search 💙

Semester over, thx @vasayorku for having me, pure

Semester over, thx @vasayorku for having me, pure joy teaching clay (my main squeeze ❤️) to many enthusiastic makers! 🤗💕🌟⚡️

A great birthday, teaching and grinding🥳 wrappi

A great birthday, teaching and grinding🥳 wrapping up ♏️ Scorpio season 🔥⚡️

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