{"id":472,"date":"2015-03-19T23:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2022-02-03T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:04:44","slug":"where-have-you-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/where-have-you-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Have You Been?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. <\/strong><\/em>It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest”.\u00a0<\/strong> – Georgia O’Keeffe
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In conjunction with my current exhibition COLOR<\/strong>|stories, I gave a talk last weekend about my work and process. One of the things I touched upon is how the many places my husband and I have lived have influenced my work, leaving an impression through color, composition, and subject.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I thought it might be interesting to take a quick tour of the locales we’ve called home via representative examples that have resulted from a sense of each place.<\/p>\n

Maine: <\/strong>Having grown up on the coast of Maine, the Atlantic ocean is deeply imprinted: the smell of salt air, the varying blue\/grey\/green, the sound of the waves…<\/p>\n

\"Seaglass.Blog\"<\/a>

Seaglass<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a92002 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Washington State:\u00a0 <\/strong>Recurrent visits to Pike Place Market resulted in many fish drawings and paintings.
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\"Fish<\/a>

Rockfish<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a91986 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Virginia:\u00a0 <\/strong>Most of the 10 months we lived in Virginia were so hot and humid that it seemed I barely ventured out of the air-conditioning. I made a series of clothes hanger drawings that year that were the direct result of so much time spent indoors.<\/p>\n

\"HangersInSunlightBlog\"<\/a>

Hangers in Sunlight<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a91987 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

San Francisco:\u00a0 <\/strong>I can’t remember if this piece was inspired by the quilt I was making for our expected first baby – or the other way around. But it was at this time that I realized that pastel dust and pregnancy didn’t mix and I was going to have to find another way to make art.
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\"RedGeometric.Blog\"<\/a>

Red Geometric with Arc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a91987 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Hawaii:\u00a0 <\/strong>Sitting on a Hawaiian beach, how could one not be inspired by the expanse of sky and fluffy clouds stretching out forever over the clear, turquoise water?
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\"Lanikai.Blog\"<\/a>

Lanikai<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a91994 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Washington State, again:\u00a0 <\/strong>We were so happy to go back to Washington. The colors of the evergreens, Mount Rainier in the distance, and even the rain were all aspects we loved.
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\"FutileDreams.Blog\"<\/a>

Futile Dreams<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a91996 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Pennsylvania:\u00a0 <\/strong>While living in PA, I saw the Delaware River daily. Watching as it reflected varying qualities of light was a large part of its charm.
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\"FRAM.RivRefrac\"<\/a>

River Refraction<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a92005 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Vermont: <\/strong>There is so much to love about Vermont. The seasons have such a huge impact on us here and add so much depth to the routine of the everyday. Fall’s mantel of russet and gold, covering unmown fields, is a showstopper.
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\"WhenBirdsFly.Blog\"<\/a>

When Birds Fly South<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a92011 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

While each locale may not be immediately apparent in these works without knowing the back story, when seen in this context I feel that these pieces, as a group, create something of a road map of our semi-nomadic life.<\/p>\n

It’s a worthwhile exercise to think about how the places in your life have affected your thought process and resulting work, don’t you think? We can’t help but be a product of where we’ve been.<\/p>\n

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