"Recyled Earth"
The work presented here is a collection of images which represents insights gained through observing the living world around me. The concepts I explore are derived from the workings of the natural world and how I and those around me interact with it. There is wonder experienced by children as they observe metamorphosis for the first time. There is a vast history of birth and death in a leaf that my son hands to me. Deep experiences in the world seem ever dappled with an underlying awareness of time, cycles, growth, decay and growth again. I see an intricate connective pattern that pervades the living systems of the world. It feels like a pulsing rhythm compounding with scale; one cell to a community of cells to one being to a community of beings. Beyond lies a backdrop of duality, a play of positive and negative, light and shadow, birth and death along with a surprising interchangeability. My hope is that the images I make give rise to curiosity about these themes and an awareness of the interconnected experience of all things living. I hope that my work might allow the space for new connections to be made between each of us and the living world we, sometimes unknowingly, are immersed in.
IG: @linseytankersley
Medium & dimensions:
Woodcut prints
Resurrection of the forest floor: 20 x 20 inches
Rebirth of a Robin: 18 x 25 inches
Linsey is an artist, teacher and mother who lives in Niles Michigan. She studied at Grand Valley State University, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Art degree with an emphasis in printmaking. Linsey creates woodcuts, etchings and collagraphs which explore themes of interconnectedness in the natural world.
