Friends, my Communities will be available to visit hyper-locally in my community (!) at Molly’s Bottle Shop in West Seattle for the month of October. Come say hi during the West Seattle Art Walk on Thursday, October 13 from 5-late!
Polaris and Cassiopeia with Satellite, 2021, Gauche, oil pastel and graphite on Rives BFK paper, 44.5 x 63.25 in. (maple frame)
Now is the time.
Togetherness.
Love.
Community.
Solidarity.
Courage.
Hope.
Ignore the lies and find the hope.
With the works on paper, Communities, Prince explores aloneness, solidarity and togetherness. In Communities, the artist plots soft graphite stars on the mixed media works behind organic black forms in oil pastel, signifying our immediate people groups, and semi-circles of blue gouache, representing our earth. Each element points to levels of togetherness; we are not only in community with each other, but connected across our world and in the larger universe too.
During the early works in this series the artist intuitively placed the stars but as this series developed Prince was compelled to use real stars. For the later works Prince used a star app on her smart phone to take pictures of the current constellations overhead, which she then hand-plotted on to the paper, documenting the current time.
Relationships compel interdisciplinary abstract artist Megan Prince to create; relationships between people, to belongings, and to the earth. We are all tied together by relationship. Prince’s work points to the similarities we all share and the intrinsic desire we have of being together.
"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. This is the real message of love." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Megan Prince: Communities
Molly’s Bottle Shop - West Seattle
3278c California Ave SW
Seattle, WA, 98116
