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Leslie Sweder
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Tracing perception and relation in living systems. Wetlands are my studio, my collaborator. Listening is my practice. www.sweder.art
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🌿Field Notes is live! — reflections from wetlands, embodied experience & the small stories shaping my art practice.
First up: Notes on Place — a meditation on memory & change.
Dive in: sweder.art/fieldnotes 🍃

#SlowMatter #EcoArt #PlaceBased #ArtistOnBluesky
Notes on Shale: The Corner Brook Stream. Newfoundland, CA
Oil on Birch Panel
9 x 12 x 1.5 inches/22.86 x 30.48 x 3.81 cm
#artistsonbluesky #contemporaryart #painting #Canadianart #notes
While at Empire of Dirt, I spent long stretches alone in the forest—still, alive, disorienting.

This work emerged from that time: a visceral attempt to feel where my body ends and the forest begins…

A small movement in a larger system.

See more from In the Dirt → sweder.art/projects/in-the-dirt
In The Dirt — LESLIE SWEDER
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In the Dirt

sideways to sense the boundary between my own flesh and the forest floor.

a small part of the earth, returning.

#Sideways #BlueskyArtShow #InTheDirt #getoutside #fieldnotes #bodyandland #ecologicalart
Eddy, August 18, 2017.
SE end of St. Patrick’s Island Bridge.
Where the current folds into itself—soft resistance, circling memory.
Oil on birch panel, from Notes on Current:
sweder.art/projects/notesoncurrent
#QueerEcologies #FeministEcologies #PleinAirPainting #NotesOnCurrent #ArtistsOnBluesky
🌿Field Notes is live! — reflections from wetlands, embodied experience & the small stories shaping my art practice.
First up: Notes on Place — a meditation on memory & change.
Dive in: sweder.art/fieldnotes 🍃

#SlowMatter #EcoArt #PlaceBased #ArtistOnBluesky