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Courtney Dookwah
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MICRO/MACRO ARTIST RESIDENCY IN ORKNEY, SCOTLAND
sketchbook & experiments
A group artist residency at the Pier Arts Centre made possible by the Museum of Loss & Renewal.
Painting outside with seaweed, seawater, wind and peat
on chalk gesso and linen birchwood canvases.
Egg tempera painting and drawings made with the land and in the outdoor studio.
Sea water, moorland water, yellow ochre clay, and some flotsam.
home scars
limpet kisses
periwinkle and cotton grass
black sponge on kelp beds
yellow scale and snow bed lichens
Grootie buckies
Rena's homecooking
curlew calls
a mermaid's purse
Bella's banana bread
placed-based learning
is listening on arrival
bodies become moving portals
open to the presence
of collaborative imagination
retracing our steps
in the dark
catching night waves
in quicksilver and clay
before we depart
on the edge
salt licks stone
sun lights wind
hair wisps dust
we murmur
in the night
aurora sleepers
under the watch
