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Claire Townsend
Collage Artist/ Painter
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Pipilotti Rist
This last month I’ve seen both the Pipilotti Rist exhibitions in NYC, simultaneously at Hauser & Worth and Luhring Augustine in their Chelsea galleries. Rist is an incredibly inspiring artist, she is very theatrical in her work- telling untold stories, that you feel like if you stick around for enough, you might just hear the narrative whisper in your ear.
Her work is part installation, part…
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(it's all) Snakes and Ladders
This last year can accurately be described as a doozy. Christmas Eve I played a candy version of Snakes and Ladders with my niece, and witnessed first hand the disapointment of slipping backwards along a snake again. This year has been one hell of a game. After feeling like I was healing my foot after a calcaneous fracture, my mobility suddenly got worst- culminating with not being able to walk…
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#calcaneous fracture#disability#golden dawn#healing#hermetic society#hermit#kabballah#many moons#mobility#Quaballah#Rachel Pollack#Sefirot#seventy degrees of wisdom#Tarot#tree of life
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#a cappella#art#avant guard#chapbook#contemporary art#graphic score#healing#illustration#inspiration#Music#Painting#poetry#text#watercolour
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Don't Should on Me
A love letter to women’s reproductive rights
When Roe vs Wade was overturned a year ago, I was in Thailand, on a night train, from Bangkok to Changmai without interent. I arrived at my hostel and logged ito the wi-fi to see a day that was vaguely hinted at could happen, but I never truely belived would arrive. This was perhaps naivity or self-enforced denial on my behalf. The signs were there.…
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These words won't sing themselves
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#a poem a day#acappella#chapbook#hand painted#healing#illustration#Painting#poems#poetry#text-art#watercolor#watercolour
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On herbs for healing...
In so many more ways than one right now! I’ve been working with The Gift of Healing Herbs by Robin Rose Bennett. Through it, I’ve learning how to experiment with herbs- by using them one at a time.
The first herb I began to work with was yarrow, which I very randomly had a dream about, so I picked some up and made an infused olive oil. Yarrow is very gentle and compassionate, and apparently a…
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#greenwitch#healingjourney#herbalist#lavender#thegiftofherbalhealing#broken ankle#comfrey#essential oils#fractured ankle#giftofhealing#healankle#healing#herbalmedicine#herbs#hydrotherapy#plantspiritmedicine#yarrow
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Flow like the river to the sea
As I’m through NYC’s wonderful February funk, a mess of snow clouds, dreary rainy days and the occasional late to the January party sunny freezing skies ( I love those days), I’m trying to stay in in the Keep Calm And crowd and as my tarot/ new oracle cards keep telling me ‘flow like water’. My life is a little uncertain these days. The job used to do required 6-7 hours of walking per day and 2…
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Good vibrations
A long while ago, I started thinking about cymatics, spurred on by discovering there was such a thing as a vibraacoustic bath (whhhhhhhat?!?) and also by an exhibition of sound based artists I saw at Metaphor Projects in Brooklyn. The project got swept under the rug, but as I’m starting to have bandwidth to create I’m starting to delve into them again.
A vibroacoustic bath is one that will play…
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On Healing
It’s been a rough month. I have Psoriasis, and have had for the last 30 odd years, but combined with a fractured ankle and a knee injury, it’s a bit much. My medical boot is rubbing against my skin and along my lower leg it’s bright red and smarting, and the psoriasis on my knee has made healing there ridiculously slow.
So I thought this week I would go into PT, and wear shorts to show how my…
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Bows & Arrows
Bows & Arrows
I’ve just started being more fluent in watercolour, after starting last January. Work was so busy, I just wanted dinner and a drink before crashing into bed at 10 when I would get home, so I would take my paints with me everywhere, to make sure I got some creative time in. There were a lot of strong drinks at bars all over the city to loosen up my painting, which also meant lots of interesting…
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#art#collage#cut#digital art#hand painted#kolaj#Leonora Carrington#magic realism#sketches#Surrealism
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Potion
THIS WEEK, I’ve been joining in Folktale Week and cursing myself for not starting on the prompts earlier. As such, my images have been more sketches than finished pieces that I’m happy with. So, it being Saturday and my fractured ankle throbbing away after a long week, and pushing myself extra hard at PT yesterday, I decided to start early.
Poison was one I took on personally, in a way I haven’t…
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How to keep your head above water
This month’s project has been a beautiful one. A friend commissioned me to create an single cover, for her latest realese on spotify. The single, Still, produced both tears and tingles on my first listen, as I dove deeper into the songs metaphors for greif, I knew I needed to be a part of the project.
Elly Kace, is a amazing singer. Her first album, Nothing I…
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#art therapy#coping techniques#covid#Elly Kace#greif#lake#music therapy#sea#singer#singing bowls#sound bath#sound healing#swimming
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The high price of tea
The high price of tea
I’ve been researching all week for the final ‘love notes’ for the immersive theatre piece myself, Bea Goodwin have been producing with the amazing Letter of Marque Theatre. These are little notes within the piece for the audience to stumble upon with some insights into the history of tea, tea reading and tea production.
It’s hard to talk about tea with out acknowleding it’s dark history- opium…
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The cup of knowledge
The cup of knowledge
an immersive theatre project premiering Jan 29th, which can be booked herethe name given a series of cups produced by 6 combined pottery companies for British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 – 1925 capitalize on women’s fortune telling.
Researching for the Cup of Knowledge has been an amazing exploration recently. After looking at the history of tea as a foundation, I’ve been exploring…
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It's all in the cup
It’s all in the cup
A fortune teller peddles the whispers written in the stars, in one of oldest professions still forbidden to women. For a woman who drinks from the cup of knowledge is aware she can support herself financially and emotionally, and what dear reader, is more threatening than that?
I’m *very* excited to announce a new project that’s been in the works since March, in collaboration with Bea Goodwin, a…
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We Wear The Mask
We Wear The Mask
This week I’ve been gearing up for a new play reading of The Mis-Education of America by Rajendra Rahoon Maharaj, incorporating writings by the Letter of Marque Theatre Company Ensemble around metaphorical mask wearing during these times. It’s a timely dissection of self created facades we use around each other to survive, to fit into an inherently racist society, to hide our vulnerabilities.
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Next weekend Renée Berthelette and myself are having an artists talk with host Gywneth Manley, talking process & inspiration and raffling of an 8” x 10” of a piece we created for the First Live show last month. There are 6 other artists all chatting with Gywneth, all raffling off pieces to support the Bail Fund Project. Come out and support a good cause with the chance of winning some amazing art! September 25th, 5pm EST , 2pm EST- follow link to Omni Open Studios in bio for the zoom link! #artgiveaway #artpromotion #support #bail #artraffle #omniopenstudios #openstudios #artiststalk #aqueousisolations #climatechange #ocean #nycclimateweek https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZi1Z0hlyD/?igshid=o604lydtmu4c
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