We would like to share this experience of transforming a landscape into a work of art that reflects our emotions, memories, and relationship with nature. We invite the members of the public community to participate in our two-hour hands-on workshop.
With this photo, we will guide the audience to create a small watercolor painting from it, and then transform it into a paper weaving. At the end of this workshop, we will hang finished works from the participants at the entrance of Hopkins Hall Gallery. We hope to create a dialogue between different personal experiences with landscapes, connecting the Nordic to Ohio.
Meandering North juxtaposes abstract digital weavings by Meagan Smith with representational paintings and ceramics by Chen Peng. Their works explore mysterious Nordic landscapes, which transform into immersive states of mind that highlight beauty, isolation, and their feminist connections to the environment. In Smithʼs tapestry, undulating patterns, graphic waves, and optical coloring create specific visual movements that relate to phenomenology and perception. Peng explores the narratives of our relationships with nature, presenting a stillness and timelessness quality in her works. These works invite the viewers to meander alongside the artists, weaving in and out of their own contemplations of personal landscape.