5.30.2013

Spanish Beard


Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) 
layered graphite drawing on mylar
36″ x 14″
2012


Spanish moss has long held a fascination for me; I often pull handfuls off branches to idly make cords with in the same way some people make daisy chains. Yet, it's not until Northerners visit and marvel at it hanging from the trees that I feel such pride in having it in the landscape. Those of us that live here trade facts about it.

"It's not really moss you know . . . it's an air plant."
"Closely related to pineapple from what I hear."
"Pretty sure it's not even from Spain . . ."

I object.

"Perhaps you are wrong about that. It's well known that when the Spaniards arrived after their long journey, a few of them fell into deep obsession with some of the pretty native women and began earnest pursuit. The women -being fast thinkers and entirely uninterested in the furry faced men following them- climbed up into the oaks and the Spaniards climbed up after them. Much to the dismay of the men, their beards became hopelessly tangled in the branches. As they struggled, the women climbed down and escaped, but the poor lovelorn explorers stayed high in the trees. They eventually passed away, but their beards remain and continue to grow and spread from tree to tree."

Everyone nods thoughtfully save for my young nieces who scowl, forever skeptics.


This work is part of the FLOR500 project. Read more here.

5.28.2013

cloudblot II



part II of my collection of kites imagined, but not yet made.



5.19.2013

peers through

Another abstract comic strip from fall.

Peers Through
graphite, whiteout tape, scratches on both sides of translucent mylar
3" tall
2012










5.07.2013

Surfacing Opening

 This is posted long after the fact, but I did have a show at ALT_space in New Smyrna Beach, FL.
Erin Curry Art drawings "What I Might Have Said" graphite, gesso on Duralar solo show
Erin Curry
 "What I might have said"
graphite, gesso on Duralar
14" x 11"

Erin Curry Art drawing installation "News (wherevere the wind blows)" graphite on translucent mylar solo show
Erin Curry
drawing installation
"News (wherever the wind blows)"
graphite on translucent mylar 

Erin Curry Art drawing installation "News (wherevere the wind blows)" graphite on translucent mylar of traced boxes of newspaper layout solo show
Erin Curry
drawing installation
"News (wherever the wind blows)"
graphite on translucent mylar 

Erin Curry Art drawing sculpture "try again" graphite, carbon paper on tracing paper origami balloons solo show
Erin Curry
drawing sculpture
"try again"
graphite, carbon paper on tracing paper origami balloons 

Erin Curry Art drawing sculpture "try again" graphite, carbon paper on tracing paper origami balloons solo show
Erin Curry
drawing sculpture
"try again" graphite, carbon paper on tracing paper origami balloons


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