to find (in) words

2016-2018

artworks created in conversation with Penny Morgan, Professor Emeritis of Fire Ecology & Forest Ecology at the University of Idaho, made possible through the “Visualizing Science” VIP Grant Project.

“lines drawn by our own interpretations and interventions 

              fill.       permeate.”

- from hand-stitched words in curtain in to find (in) words installation


In Exhibtion:

to find (in) words


Prichard Gallery, Moscow, Idaho,
2017





to find (in) words: spring


Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho
2018

Drawing featuring mended words from correspondance between Morgan & Isenbarger. Text also hand stitched in curtain fabric featured in original 2017 to find (in) words installation.

field work & making poetic connections



“It’s like 

[arm extending left]

over here, gone.BUT over there

[arm extending right]

nothing.”


Gatlinburg, TN Resident, Jan. 2017


Over There, Gone. Here, Nothing. (Gatlinburg). 25.5in x 15in x 1.75in
Created at one week Pentaculum Residency at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN one month after the Great Smokey Mountain wildfires of 2016.




2017 interview for University of Idaho’s Visualizing Science.

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(c) stacy Isenbarger 2023