Diane Aldrich
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| Pod Series I | Seed Bag Series II | Windfall Series I |
- Pod Series I: paper, cactus husk 9 X 10 on wood panel
- Seed Bag Series II: seeds, raffia 8 X 10 on wood panel
- Windfall Series I - Watershed: paper, gauze, seeds, 12 X 12 on wood panel
My life as an Iowa farm girl has come full circle to again absorb me while living in the mountain basin of Tucson, AZ. My art has always carried a running theme of nature and the human interaction with its elements. My new series moves in and out and around the concern for the future of nature’s seeds: the life blood of human survival. Nation’s around the globe are gathering, sorting and storing them into Seed Bank’s to protect them from extinction.
My family lived from season to season on the planting and harvesting of these seeds. To use that as a theme for my art settled into my soul as natural as using a sumptuous substance that only nature could provide, bees wax. The encaustic medium fascinates, challenges and pushes the possibilities that this artist hungers for; texture, sculpting, collage, and fabulous luminous melting color. Encaustics is an ancient art that has been reborn to engage the modern artist. It is a natural meld for telling the old, old story of seeds.