art + exploration by Jennifer Drinkwater

THOUGHTS

Thoughts about art and community.

Posts in painting
Patterns

Creatively, I've been mulling over patterns. Literal and physical patterns in our environment. How single motifs or behaviors add up in meaningful ways over the course of a lifetime of a person or a landscape or a community. How we repeat societal patterns over and over until they become calcified habits, no matter the damage.

And how change happens in spite of all that.

(You know. Breezy stuff.)

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Great River: Evolution of a Painting (plus a love letter to Greenville, Mississippi)

This past summer, I had a show at the E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center, home of the Greenville Arts Council. As I was prepping for the exhibition, it occurred to me that I didn’t have any pieces of the Mississippi River itself.

Which is embarrassing and shameful, for the following reasons: 1) I’ve lived within 150 miles of this behemoth for 40 of my 45 years on the planet, and 2) the Mississippi River makes Greenville, Greenville.

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