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

Thursday, June 10, 2010

p:ear

I am volunteering at p:ear again today.  I start the recovery panes workshop series with them in 2 weeks.  Hopefully, I can get them excited and willing to participate .  The stories that these kids have to share are very important and I believe can teach us all. 

Addiction is a major cause of why these kids end up homeless.  But, there are so many variations of why that is the case.  Instead of statistics, I hope to see the truths from the kids that are so harshly impacted on a daily basis.

Well, I should be off.... 
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