   Fast forward to January 2025. A year after losing my dad I return to the Desert Dairy for a two-week residency. The world has gone crazy and I am still battling extreme fatigue and frequent headaches from my covid infection of 2022. I am playing with the jars and the glass again, but now it feels like I am trying to put all the broken things of the world back together in a small way. Making something beautiful out of the detritus of willful destruction. Jars and bottles and cans and old mattresses thoughtlessly tossed onto the sand and left to rust or used for target practice. Vulnerable people and ecosystems and agreements to co-exist just tossed onto the sand to burn, disappear, blow away. If I paint for too long or concentrate too hard, I get a splitting headache. But my eyes can notice treasures on the dune, my hands can work for hours arranging and sorting and twisting wire and building armatures for the broken glass. My second stay here results in the creation of more spirit jars, with time taken to arrange and build structures to hold the glass In place. I did a few photo shoots with them, chasing the exact moment of twilight when the glow of the jars would be most enhanced by the fading desert light.    
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Lynn Heinz spent her Spring 2023 residency making paintings and mixed media monoprints based on landscape. Guest Resident Char Vine brought her custom Freedom Trax wheelchair augmentation to try out in the dunes. She made a piece of earth art! See the video HERE.  Assemblage artist Monica Marks spent her 2nd residency at the Desert Dairy making both wall works and totems. See her video HERE.   Michele returns for an incredible 4th residency, creating another stunning earth work. See video HERE. Michele and her husband are now working on founding their own residency in Oregon. We hope to go visit!  Eco-artist Eileen Wold made an ephemeral installation during her residency at the Desert Dairy. See video HERE.  Musician and multimedia artist Oshri Hakak returns to the Desert Dairy to make music and create a piece of earth art. See video HERE.  |
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