I was recently selected as one of eight Florida Artists to participate in a national exhibition entitled: Navel Gazing, Artists Visions of Florida. The exhibition will open at the Brevard Art Museum in Melbourne, Florida on January 30, 2010.
My proposal involved creating "new" work inspired by taking an unconventional expedition through the heart of Florida between Sarasota, Florida and Melbourne, Florida. That seven-hour, 375 mile round-trip field expedition took place on the last day of November, 2009.
After meeting with curator Jackie Borsanyi at the Brevard Art Museum, we determined that my contribution to the exhibition would be five new 24"x36" mixed-media drawings on frosted mylar. I will be using this blog to document the creative process and devlopment of those new pieces.
6:57 a.m
30 November, 2009
Leaving the Gulf of Mexico, I headed north on a route that would involve traveling on a portion of the original "Cracker Trail" in Manatee county. I then proceeded east-northeast through the undisturbed center of the sunshine state toward the Atlantic Ocean. The Cracker Trail was used by the early settlers and cattlemen of Florida to move goods and livestock between the populated coasts of Florida. Much of the route looks as it must have in the later part of the eighteenth century.
The Route:
SR70E
SR675N
SR64E
27N
SR630E
60E
SR441/15N
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