mulitmedia installation involving silkscreen, cut paper, and wood
‘First Glimpse’
depicts a story told to the artist by her father: In 1972 he visited his
father, who was working on the Wynoochee dam. On a solitary hike, he
looked up spontaneously and met the gaze of a young cougar. “I was the
first person he had ever seen- he didn’t know what to do with me.”
The strangeness of realizing that your first encounter with a plausibly dangerous animal while simultaneously realizing it is the predators first encounter with a human is one that is interesting, and in this modern world, fantastical. It is for these
reasons that Wood chose to recreate the scene using methods of her own storytelling: life-sized prints and cut paper.
This installation can be seen on 3rd and University until July 7th, 2011
The strangeness of realizing that your first encounter with a plausibly dangerous animal while simultaneously realizing it is the predators first encounter with a human is one that is interesting, and in this modern world, fantastical. It is for these
reasons that Wood chose to recreate the scene using methods of her own storytelling: life-sized prints and cut paper.
This installation can be seen on 3rd and University until July 7th, 2011
