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"The Garden Series: Peripatetic Suite" is a
series of drawings begun prior to my daughter's trip to England and France in 1998 which coincided with a sculpture residency
I had scheduled in Harrison County, Iowa. Intially we joked about the symmetry of our experiences--she would be in Paris
when I was in Pisgah, she'd be in London when I was in Little Sioux.... From those musings came the notion of
creating small original works of art that would be left behind in atypical places to be discovered by unsuspecting passers
by--more or less a reverse souvenir. My daughter would visit new locales and leave behind a memento, while I would
be doing the same thing in all the sites of my residency. What resulted was a series of 47 images, with 2 or 3 unique drawings
of each image. All are 2" x 2", done in watercolor, colored pencil and graphite, encased in acetate with an explanatory
label on the reverse. I have kept one of each image as documentation and the rest have been distributed. Over
50 original drawings have been left in cafes, post offices, churches, museums, castles, airports, telephone booths, train
stations, parks, hotels, etc. I am intrigued by the idea of people finding a gift of original artwork, and the
unexpectedness and directness of their encounter with art. (Though my contact information was on the reverse,
I have never had a response from anyone finding the artworks.)
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