Title :Shotgun Sunday
STAR: What are your favourite works you have created?
LAURA.M: When I did my graduating exhibition for my Bachelor
of Fine Arts in 2009 I did a series of works that spoke to the relation-
ship between nature and technology. I did a large scale painting of a
landscape from one of my Sunday hikes and took a verse from a poem
about nature by William Wordsworth and translated it to binary code.
I hid the code in the smoke in the landscape and added a tiny mouse
pointer in the trees. The painting itself is 4 feet by 6 feet, and was
nominated for the Bank of Montreal art competition that year. This
was one of my first large works and it has become one of my most
favorite pieces. It was also the piece that broke my block and allowed
me to just paint what came to mind. I had spent a lot of time being
stuck on work that I wasn’t really inspired by. I took this piece and ran
with it and it led me in a great direction.
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