During our Bandon Art Retreat, we went out to lunch on Saturday, then went exploring to various places South on Highway 101. Our first stop is a place aptly named "ART101" you can check it out at Art101Bandon.org The artist who owns the place has a beautiful view of undersea life, creating beautiful mixed media 3-D pieces, using recycled materials. Her "Sea Cave" is an installation piece, an entire room, with closing curtains to create a sea cave, with many glow in the dark effects. She uses a lot of shag rug, sweaters, knits, hair scrunches, paint, plastic parts, beads etc.. to create reef environments, corals, anemones, shells and other sea life. To be enclosed in the cave is an awesome experience. The second part of her work is with public participation and recycling. The project "Washed Ashore" at washedashore.org is made with found objects from the beach, people bring her all sorts of items found around coastal Oregon, plastics, nets, glass and metal. Large sculptures of ocean and coastal creatures are made with the recycled materials. I was there once when they were working on a large salmon, and Pat was there during the summer, with her family and helped make a starfish. A large jellyfish and a seagull were the recent projects.
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Sea Cave closeups
& Orange corals.
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Washed Ashore
recycled materials
sculpture
Further South in Langlois we stopped at the Wool Shop, they were full of beautiful knits, felts, and fibers. Several of us got sample bags of various wools, mohairs, and silks to use in our needle felting projects. It was a place where you just want to feel all the textures, soft and fuzzy and hairy!
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