Anna
Morgan McClellan
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Low Yards Series
All works part of an Art Ventures Grant provided by The Community Foundation Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida
"I come into the red-black cathedral of the dense pine forest, which lives noiselessly and watches itself, mimicking, trunks with eyes spread out thickly and exhale the visible, damp air. How lovely! Everything is living dead." - Egon Schiele
The series Low Yards focuses on the natural cycles of Southeastern regional environments and developed out of a desire to shift from the traditional concepts of representing the “ideal” in landscapes. The works give opportunity to the uncommon and overlooked and acknowledge the changes present in the development and destruction of the natural world. Starting out in this series I was removing the subject matter (dried leaves, twigs, seed pods) from environments in North Carolina and bringing them home to be placed in a traditional studio still-life setting. The more I work with the objects I realize this displacement sterilizes the qualities that give them their original intrigue. My new work reflects the immediacy of working in nature with drawing media in order to create a stronger narrative within the drawings and a more accurate artistic “footprint” of my being a pure observer of natural cycles.
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