march 30, 2017

03-30-17 "NO DAPL"
03-30-17 “NO DAPL”

14×22″ mixed media on paper (acrylic, map, marker, currency strips)

This has been a long time coming—just couldn’t get going on it or figure out what to do with it for months. I’m still not sure I like it, but as with the daily janes, I’m calling it for now. I drew the route of the Bakken pipeline through Iowa onto a state road map. Originally I thought I would keep the map of the contiguous counties intact, but it made for an awfully large piece and seemed to just be a map of the pipeline route. Then I had the idea to cut each county out, and to place them in such a way that the pipeline lines sort of formed N-O. I collaged those onto an already painted paper. I highlighted the route a little more, then collaged some currency strips onto the blue and painted those.

2 thoughts on “march 30, 2017”

  1. Thanks for sharing, touches me deeply after working twice at Standing Rock and being active by Pilot Mound as a River Witness… etc… Are you participating in any current Indigenous Iowa… Bold Iowa… etc local events? Torn about more deep involvement …

    1. Thanks for the comment, Jill. I was involved mostly before the Iowa Utilities Board decision, but have donated items for Standing Rock and expressed my opinion in other ways. It’s hard to do it all!

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