MARCIE SCUDDER
My Mothers Garden
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PROJECT STATEMENT:
Is it a photograph?
A quilt?
A sculpture?
An experience?
I’ll let the viewer decide.
In the midst of a global pandemic, I woke one morning and decided the time was right to take one giant leap of faith to fulfill a longtime dream. I would return to school in pursuit of an MFA. With a beginner’s mind and in the seat of a beginning student, I found myself free to explore a new means of creative expression. My camera would continue to be my paintbrush. But with my background in architecture, and family legacy of photography, fashion and fiber arts, I needed to explore how I might re-form them into an expression of my own.
These are experiments and explorations in re-imagining. Beginning with a photograph printed on paper - I cut, fold and sew - into new formations. They morph. They change with their environments. They are meant to inform the viewer’s experience of memory, space and time.
How does one experience a summer garden? How does one experience a summer day?
We feel the color…the sunshine…the heat. We hear the birds and the bees. We taste every imaginable sweetness. It’s a blur of visual imagery…energy…full-body-sensation.
Regrowth. Rebirth. Renewal.
A conversation that connects our pasts with our futures.
A moment in time.
Blink and it’s gone.
We are/I am ‘My Mother’s Garden’.
The seasons and all of life’s cycles.
We - the flowers she planted - her children, ours, and their children’s children after that - continue one generation after another.
We continue to bloom. We continue to grow.
We carry on.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Marcie Scudder is a lens-based visual artist exploring the connection between the human experience and nature’s abstracted organic forms. Currently working in photography, artist bookmaking and larger-scale installation art, she re-imagines and re-shapes what she sees and captures through her camera’s lens, creating immersive experiences. Beginning with a photographic print, she cuts and folds, sews, and sculpts the imagery into 3-dimensional paper abstractions. Her process is one of endless discovery as she challenges herself to uncover new. She is continually playing with scale - how it both transforms and informs, affecting one's proprioception and sense of movement through space.
Her inspiration is derived from the colors, shapes and forms of my Vermont landscape.
Her camera acts as only one small part of her creative toolbox. The photograph acts only as a portal into the possibility of her own adventure. Making art is how she learns, connects and feels. She hopes to evoke that same sense of curiosity, joy, hope and grace when experiencing her work.
Currently, Marcie lives and works in Stowe, VT and is in pursuit of my Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Maine Media College.
You can see more of her work here.
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All artwork is available for sale.
For pricing information contact
Marcie Scudder:
marcie@marciescudder.com