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Gwen Magee

USA Ford Fellow, 2007
Crafts & Traditional Arts
  • Dec 10, 2010

    3rd in the Series - FLOTSAM and DEBRIS

    “FLOTSAM AND DEBRIS” - This piece will focus on those who died outside their homes and whose bodies were subsequetly strewn "hither and thither"  on the streets or landscape.

     

                Front Cover:  Scene showing water up to rooftops and Stop sign

     

                Panel 1: Body in tree

     

                Panel 2:  Body in gutter

     

    Panel 3: Body on roof of car

     

                Panel 4: ...

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  • Dec 07, 2010

    ABANDONED - Rough Sketch

    I'm sorry I'm so late in posting this, but it couldn't be helped.

     

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  • Nov 19, 2010

    "Abandoned!"

    “ABANDONED!” is the title planned for the second piece in the series. It will focus on the elderly/disabled patients who were left by nursing home staff to die defenseless, mostly alone and terrified.

     

    A single scene will be the focus of this piece. Five panels are planned plus front and back cover designs:

     

    Front Cover:  Entrance door to a nursing home showing staff leaving

     

    Panel 1:

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  • Nov 12, 2010

    "TRAPPED!" Sketches

     

    Trapped Rough Sketch

    These are the rough (very) sketches for "Trapped!". It is designed to capture one family's desperate and fruitless attempt to save themselves as the flood waters unremittingly continues to rise.

    I'm in process of trying to decide how the flood waters will be depicted since it needs to be transparent - will test out using some form of netting or sheer organza or creating it myself with...

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  • Nov 04, 2010

    "Trapped!"

     

    In the next few posts I will share with you my current thoughts about

    how the three tunnel book pieces in the series will be represented visually.

     

    “TRAPPED!” is the title planned for the first piece in the series. My thinking at this point is that it will be comprised of five panels plus front and back cover designs:

     

    Front Cover:  Representation of the search code on the front of a...

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  • Oct 28, 2010

    Background

    The focus of this pre-project blog is to give you some idea about why this project is important to (and inspires) me

    and to share my ideas about the project as they become more crystallized.

     

    PERSONAL CONNECTIONS

     

    My daughter and family had been driving for 6 hours and still were nowhere close to Jackson – normally only a 3-hour drive. They were part of the mass of humanity evacuating...

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