Tag: WayfinderArt
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Pieces of Her…..
If you could talk about a life, a life created in pieces, sewn piece by piece together as we learn skills and hope shines bright on our future. There is sometimes a constant. The dress, the skirt, the apron. The piece of fabric we pin our hopes and dreams on. But the threads as strong […]
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New Episode AR:T ROUTE RADIO
Mentorship and the artwork of Hanako Nagao https://www.artrouteradio.com/e/wayfinder-mentorship-with-guest-artist-hanako-nagao-e30/ See, Believe and Mentor is the Wayfinder Philosophy. The time spent with Artist Hanako was a wonderful and very enlightening experience. The first big Community Mural that Hanako created will be installed soon in the town of Golden, British Columbia. The work, the process and the cultural […]
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The meaning of the sunflower
As I enter the studio today to spend a day contemplating what is the energy that surrounds me that pulls me to my safe place, it is the colour yellow that calls me. The girl with the yellow crayon, descendant of the Boyar, Korchinski and Sanyshyn family trees watching the sunflower take on many new […]
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The art of writing
The saying the pen is mightier than the sword is something my mom used to tell me all the time. Words that I use with my own four scrappy grand-boys, who come from a long line of scrappers. It is the power of those written or typed words that can capture time, heal and inspire […]
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Art Highway
From the time I was a child my life was exposed to small rural disasters. As a child growing up in a coal-mining town, the essence of dark fear was a normal. I remember my father coming home with his bright blue eyes rimmed with the residual black coal dust and his presence smelling of […]
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Art Wayfinder
In ancient times mental and spacial imagery for wayfinding was essential for survival. In many indigenous global cultures, extraordinary memory for trails, routes, signs, topography, places, plants and food sources were essential for survival of the community. As humans we have, as part of our DNA, an innate inner ability to find our way. The […]
ARTIST MICHELLE LOUGHERY 