photo by Samantha Stidham

What is Recovery Panes?

Recovery Panes is a multi-phase community project involving those who have been impacted by addiction. Participants created a small encaustic painting representative of their personal experience, strength and hope. The complex elements of encaustic wax uniquely allowed a symbolic and cathartic exploration of their experiences. Participants also shared a short, written response to the process which is paired with their art in an accompanying catalogue



All individual paintings are joined to form a larger work, framed and presented to resemble large windows with each painting representing a single windowpane. The art is interactive- the individual panels are mounted on magnets, allowing the viewers to rearrange the paintings, symbolizing our need to change our perspective and move towards de-stigmatizing addiction.

Both the Recovery Panes and the accompanying catalogue will be shown at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts through March of 2012.

A reception will be held on Thursday, February 2nd, 5pm-9pm, to celebrate both Recovery Panes and 'Come to Your Senses', a showcase of encaustic paintings by local artists

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Recovery Pane




           
"Working with, and knowing personally those wrestling with addiction, witnessing and seeing the separations both within and around the person struggling in the way, and the role of self, acceptance, self love, and surrender to the process.  The way chaos can surround the individual, and which itself ultimately is the setting for the starting ground for change.  Seasons of change, balance of different aspects within, scars and wounds as a part of the sculptures of self, the joining towards peace with self and external relationships."
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