by amanda@quarterdeck.io | May 2, 2019 | News
Drawing is understood through its origin, to pull or extract. Extracting or pulling are motions from and towards. This idea of drawing is more specific than the generic image; as in, drawing out from the imagination or memory to the page or drawing from the world...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Apr 10, 2019 | News
From the article . . . “Speaking to the project’s connection with environmental activism, RISD Professor of Architecture Kyna Leski said, ‘Beauty grips you; it makes it very difficult to look away. You can have different ideas of what it is, but …it does...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Mar 26, 2019 | Contour, News
A friend of mine, Jennifer Orkin, also known as the Instagram phenomenon, August Wren, proposed an Instagram challenge to draw / paint as many small portraits in the month of March. I am drawing my portraits from memory. Drawing from memory is a pleasure: I start...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Mar 26, 2019 | News
Here is RISD Architecture Student, Madison Russ’ “drop”/costume/screen for the opening of YOMO. She made this is in my Fall 2018 studio, which was first performed in our production of “Ocean Clarion Call.” Free tickets may be reserved...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Dec 18, 2018 | News
From the great article written by Simone Solondz on the risd.edu website: A hushed sense of anticipation takes hold as audience members find their seats in the College Building’s teak-lined former library space, where a performance piece called Ocean Clarion Call is...
by amanda@quarterdeck.io | Dec 13, 2018 | News
Intro to Ocean Clarion Call By Kyna Leski It is clear that human civilization has impacted the earth’s ecosystems. And, at the same time that the ‘earth system’ sweet spot[1] which gave rise to human civilization—is far more delicate than we realize. The...