Duality (Seed Within Itself)

Title: Duality (Seed Within Itself)
LC Subject: Paper art Paper sculpture Paper work Paper, Handmade paperwork (visual works) papermaking
Creator: Snyder, Martha
Description: This piece appears to be a paper relief comprised of circular patterning on white paper. Compostition #61 (Duality); Martha Snyder; cast paper; (replica Maude I. Kerns); 1998; For OIT/Clackamas The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
Location: Oregon Institute of Technology >> Klamath County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 7726 S. E. Harmony Road, Portland Oregon
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1998_oit_metro-center_01_a01
Accession Number: 1998_oit_metro-center_01_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Snyder, Martha
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Material: Paper work cast paper; casting pulp from magnolia paper
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1998 Oregon Institute of Technology Metro Center 1998_oit_metro-center
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: I am pleased to have had my art selected for the Oregon Institute of Technology Metro Center as a part of the Percent for art Project. Thirty years ago. I became transplant from Indianapolis, Indiana to Eugene. I received my Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts Sculpture and Design from John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1965. My work and artistic focus has evolved through the years and I am now interested in creating art in a touchable form (bas-relief) with the blind and visually impaired in mind. The tactile replicas of the Maude I. Kerns non-objective paintings are my current ongoing mission, with the final goal of making eight of them for a traveling exhibit. Th[is] piece (Duality) is one of these replicas cast in paper, not resin as they are normally done for ""touch"" purposes. I sculpt the original in clay and then I make a flexible mold of it. I first conceived of this concept while coordinating a retrospective exhibit of Maude I. Kerns (1876-1965) paintings for the Eugene Jacobs Gallery in 1994. As an artist the thought of being blind or visually impaired and unable to see paintings or experience them seemed unbelievable to me. As a sculptor I realized I could do something about that. I have continued to seek out opportunities to expose and exhibit these works for the visually impaired and to learn how I may serve them through my art and tactile graphics. I have also discovered that sighted people enjoy the opportunity to touch the art, as well, and perhaps consider the experience of loss of sight. (Snyder, May 1999)