{"id":7536,"date":"2014-06-20T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2014-06-20T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:50:07","slug":"outside-inspiration-lone-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-inspiration-lone-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Inspiration: Lone Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got in last night from the last leg of an unplanned road trip back to California to help with some family matters. On the way into Colorado I stopped in the beautiful Canyonlands area of Utah where the soil is red and the skies are huge and blue. I took a run and hike up a canyon to a lone arch that springs off the canyons upper level. The ground was rocky and dry but every once in a while a bold tree would reach up out of the rock and break the beautiful stark horizon. I have always found those lone trees draw me. Maybe I have a thing for the lone struggle in a landscape that fights you all the way.<\/p>\n

So when I saw this piece today, I had to pull it for the Outside Inspiration Friday post. This both plays to the scenes I was seeing yesterday and to the idea of surprising single elements creating the focus and beauty in a piece of art.<\/p>\n

The artist here is a very interesting woman by the name of Ione Thorkelsson<\/a>. She works in glass, adding other elements such as the found metal and the lichen she uses in this glass cast microcosm of our world, created as both a miniature of the globe we live on and a metaphor of the most basic truth of our lonely existence–lonely but reaching.<\/p>\n

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Ione has a lot to say as well as show us. You can get lost in her thoughts and meanderings on her website<\/a> and I do encourage you to do so. She speaks very openly and honestly about her process, her struggles both in creating art and the rigors of showing and living as an artist. I have heard some of her words uttered near exactly by a number of polymer artists. It’s definitely worth a sit with a cup of coffee or tea today.<\/p>\n

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