freehand plasma work; mostly what
you see in stores and in galleries is
the laser — a plasma cutter where it’s
just done mechanically. It’s done by
a machine, it’s not done freehand.”
Ormon has shown her work,
recently at the Main St. Fort Worth
Art Festival.
“I was in Main St. this past April,
filling in a cancellation spot,” she
explained. “They had a couple of
cancelations, people who had sold
out their art at previous shows, and
they wanted to fill [the spots] with
emerging artists. The only problem
with that is most emerging artists
don’t have the raw inventory to walk
into a show, with three-and-a-half-
weeks’ notice, which is what they
gave me. Most people got notified
in October for this. But I went ahead
and jumped at it and I was able to
pull it off. I didn’t have hardly any
inventory that was ready to go. So
that was kind of a grueling three-and-
a-half weeks.”
Ormon luckily received a booth
in a central location and her work
was well received.
“Everybody said it was something
new, it was something fresh,” she
said. “A lot of people were surprised.
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Love in the Afternoon
Clint, stain on steel
My cattle and my horse pictures are
fairly abstracted, and if you’re just
glancing by you don’t necessarily
know what you’re looking at, at first
glance. And they would stand there
looking at it for a couple of seconds
and be really taken back and say,
‘Oh, that’s a cow!’”
Ormon said she plans to enter
shows in the Metroplex and as far
away as New York and plans to join
the Weatherford Art Association
soon.
Asked if making art is cathartic for
her, she said not really.
“I wouldn’t say I find it ca