Channeling Bridget Conn

Bridget Conn

 

Cleaner Laundry
2004
Photographs, twigs, thread on sheets

Conjuring Great Aunt Someone (Tea Secrets)
2009
Inkjet prints on teabags, paper, metal, wax, wood
7in. x 10in. x 2.5in.

Here is a link to an artist I just discovered, Bridget Conn. Much of her work reminds of the things I started exploring last year and wish that I had continued with. Perhaps once the senior show is in place, I can start playing with that series again. (Hey a girl can dream right?) Projects I had really wanted to make were--cyanotypes on my great grandmother's tea towels and a cyanotype on a quilt--but I never got the process worked out well enough for the quilt.
Anyway.
Conn's work, Quilt of Days, a quilt made out of images on teabags, really made me miss that body of work and the adventure I found it to be. Some of the work also really reminds of past graduate, Nicolette Hall's work, with the installations and reoccurring birds. Also, I find the artist's writings to be quite nice--similar to her work style-wise.

Some of my favorites (that you should probably check out because they're awesome) are : Ancestor's Worship, Reliquary, and Conjuring Great Aunt Someone from her 'Recent Tea Projects' section. I also love love love her Cleaner Laundry work within her Stillmoreroots series. whew! 

I also thought these works might be of interest to E. Henson, with the family history and what not.

But everyone should check it ouuuutttttttt.