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| Name | Northwest Profiles: Paper Landscapes With Paper Collage Artist Katherine MacNeill |
| Video Uploader | Video From KSPS PBS Public TV |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 27-01-2023 17:00:07 |
| Video Discription | In the summer of 2022, our production crew made the journey to Oliver, British Columbia, Canada, to meet with paper collage artist Katherine MacNeill. Katherine uses recycled pieces of paper, books and magazines to recreate the landscapes she sees in western Canada. Many times people have thought that Katherine's pieces are paintings until they examine closer. While our crew was recording, Katherine was working on a beaver dam and ended up finishing the piece about a month after our departure. For more information on us: Follow Us on Twitter: @ksps_pbs Follow Us on Instagram: @kspspbs Like Us on Facebook: KSPS Visit Our Website: ksps.org Full Transcript: [Katherine MacNeill] I think the thing nowadays is that there's so many more people doing art and a lot of it is good art. And that can be a little bit daunting too, because if there's too much out there, how do you feel that you're doing something special yourself? [Open music plays] My name is Katherine MacNeill and I'm a paper collage artist. [Music plays] Since 2015, was when I started, and it was a combination of recycling, the fact that there were so many books that were being moved into the dumps. I've been collecting calendars for years and I started recycling old magazines and then trying to put it into something else, having it reborn as something else. [Music plays] It's such a good combination of tactile, color. The way it it reaches out, it becomes three dimensional. And one of the things I love about it is that sometimes I can like something across the room, but when I get closer, I kind of lose it. I think with mine, if you like it across the room, you're going to like it even more. [Music plays] I'll get my husband to take pictures of the composition that I'm interested in, and then I'll blend those things and use maybe four or five different pictures to create what I'm looking for. And I'm never copying. It's always about using a composition from a photograph that we've taken and then making it my own. And usually I'm working from a top down, so it's almost always finished as I go down and it's about actually rebuilding from each layer. I'm actually recreating the depth that I see in the landscape. So, the tree that's on top of that hillside, the bushes that are in front of it, the grasses that are right in front of that. So, everything's built on top of it and layered and I love the texture of that. Just that's what drives me. [Music plays] I love landscapes. It's a First Nations background and it's the connection to the land, the water. And the one I'm working on right now is the beaver dam. That that intrigued me. It was the idea that this is wetland that's being created. This is new habitat for creatures that are moving into it, and that's our sustainable environment. That's where the teaching is. And always, I think our family has been environmentally connected. I feel like I'm expressing something that's a part of who I am and that's where it's coming from. [Music plays] I've been told over and over that it's something that nobody else has seen being done, and I don't think too many people would be that keen because it's it is a lot of detail and a lot of time. I can spend six months easily. This one. This has been a bit too big. It's awkward in size, so it's a little more difficult to position in my work area. And it's just been difficult to find enough material in the colors I'm looking for at times. And the fact that it's a much more subtle image as well um, that's harder to hold onto and make it the way I want it to look. So, I neglected it and came back to it and it takes a while to get engaged again each time. So, I would say this one has been actually years I've probably been in the last year and a half, so, it's been difficult. Challenging for sure. [Music plays] It's been a labor of love, absolutely. You can rely on somebody else to make the good art unless you find something that just feeds you. And that's what I did. I knew I wanted to do it, but I had no idea how really energizing it was going to be and how much satisfaction I would have in doing it. I found something that just gave me that creative rush that I love and that I would hope others can find and enjoy. CLKUjyCdCVI |
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