Restoring Color

 One Small Act: A Christo Moment

Performance documented by

Digital Photography, Photo Montage

7700 x 19250 pixels, 350 ppi. Photoshop. 2012

©2012 Mary Rush Gravelle.

The number two visited print this week: One Small Act, Wrapped Cactus after Christo, a photography performance piece I created in 2012.

I had not realized that a fire on Boston Hill in Silver City, New Mexico had hit so close to a favorite hiking trail that I had not hiked for a while. I was shocked at the devastation I saw along the trail. I decided to act out a "Christo performance art" moment by wrapping a burnt cactus thereby restoring color that had been lost to the fire.

 Color Restored

Performance documented by

Digital Photography, Photo Montage

5775 x 7700 pixels, 350 ppi. Photoshop. 2012

©2012 Mary Rush Gravelle.

The final piece is a photo montage of 11 photographs I took during my ceremony of restoring this site, at least a part thereof, back to color. This was one of my most enjoyable projects. That day, after I had completed my task, I walked away from the site with a smug delightful and loving feeling, knowing that unsuspecting future hikers would happen upon my creation. I had hoped it would add a glimmer of hope and joy to their hike.

 Life in Death

Staged Digital Photography

3264 x 2448 pixels, 180 ppi. 2012

©2012 Mary Rush Gravelle.

To the right is a staged photograph I took of a beautiful burnt goddess tree in which I introduced yellow silk daffodils into the hole that had been burnt through her trunk.

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Upliftment Video

Today I want to share a video that a videographer friend, Frances R. Drew, did of me painting in Connecticut. It was a project for my painting class at Manchester Community College.

Upliftment is a painting Mary A. Gravelle did in response to the Tsunami at Sri Lanka of 2004. Location was Hartford, Connecticut. Original Score written and performed by Kenneth Ingram. A Frances R. Drew Production.

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