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About LYN BELISLE

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Artist & Like every Enso Circle Resident, Michelle and I set a personal goal

the for the twelve-week term and work alongside the Resident fellow artists

as part of the community. This practice ensures that we are not just the
Work Circle “leaders,” but are empathetic participants in the process.

And like many of the Residents, our goals often shift or morph as we
pursue them over the weeks. Here is the description of the goal that I set
for myself at the beginning of this term:

Explore the construction of mixed-media feminine/female/woman/
binary sculptural figures using material a metaphor and working with a
combination of:

Indigo-dyed fabric - communication, meditation and peace
Bone – mortality, permanence - contradiction
Earthenware – reconnection with natural forces, transformation
Wood (reclaimed) – service, protection
Beeswax – fire, resurrection

The figure that resulted (right) was actually a continuation of a piece
that I had started several years ago. It never had a sense of completion,
but as I looked at my goal, I realized that it lacked the quality of
metaphor that could be achieved by the addition of symbolic materials.
I added wood and bone, and more beeswax. The silk fiber I used was
not Indigo-dyed but was instead dyed with natural tea tannins. The title,
Flights of Fancy, refers to the liberating power of human imagination.

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