The Art of Virginia Strom Precourt
28.
Origins
1994
Styrene, Mixed Media
24” x 33”
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The woods surrounding her homes in midcoast Maine and Dover, Massachusetts, were toolboxes for Virginia Strom Precourt’s imagination. She would find inspiration in the delicacy of a fiddlehead fern, as well as the patterns in bark from freshly felled trees. In “Origins”, she matched the gnarly texture of a weathered trunk against a dark night sky, using a shadow box to add a third dimension to the work. A red blood moon signals an eclipse that brings the stars in the sky into sharper focus.
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