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A derecho comes from the Spanish word that means ‘straight’. In English, a derecho is a widespread, long-lived wind that moves rapidly in a straight line and is associated with a series of severe thunderstorms. Downburst clusters may be embedded inside the storm. Derechos can strike suddenly and cause great disruption and destruction, making it a perfect metaphor for these times. Every year dust from the Gobi desert blows through China, picks up pollutants, and spreads through Asia and the rest of the world. This fine particulate matter can also cause great damage to industries and to individuals, including the artist, but yet can also result in great beauty such as glorious sunsets. The drawing itself features this wind flow through Asia in May 2020 and uses dust blown by those winds and collected in Japan as a natural pigment created by a traditional Japanese method. By using wooden panels instead of paper, no expensive framing is needed. It can be hung as is. It also has a light varnish on it to protect the delicate colored pencil and natural pigments. Direct sunlight is not recommended.
Original Created:2020
Subjects:Abstract
Materials:Wood
Styles:AbstractFine ArtAnthropocene
Mediums:InkDustColoured pencil
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Born in Canada but currently residing in Japan. As a visual artist, Michelle Zacharias always seem to be on the outside looking in. Is she now a Canadian artist or a Japanese artist? She works primarily in natural pigments such as dust, coloured pencil, photography, and mixed media. Recent work shows the anthropocene and how dust is everywhere but affected in content and colour by individual environments and also how it affects colour in our daily environments. Why dust? Living and working in the shadow of a large chemical plant combined with winds bringing in "yellow dust" with attached particles of industrial pollution from China for many years resulted in allergies plaguing the artist throughout the year. Pollen from nature's flower and trees becomes an issue when covered in pollutants, and her artwork shows how that natural beauty might be sprinkled with spots of darkness that are partly natural and partly manmade. Dust sounds unappealing and ugly, but beautiful sunsets result from dust in the air. This dust becomes a natural pigment when traditional Japanese paint-making techniques are used. Black ink or coloured pencil can either spotlight or imitate the dust in artwork. In contemporary art, dust has been sprinkled in other mediums but rarely has it been as featured before Zacharias's art. Zacharias continues to explore how dust can be both used as a medium or suggested when using other mediums. Zacharias comes from a printmaking background and continues the detail used in her etchings regardless of the medium. Coloured pencil was a natural extension of that and also one that was much safer to use. Zacharias enjoys using unconventional materials and elevating their status to that of beauty.
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