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Various Heads 2006/2007

Dorothy Grace 12" x 9 ½" |Zola Budd 15 ½” x 12” | Winfred Coulter 16 ½" x 12 ½" | Charles Rennie Mackintosh 61" x 12 ½" | Lady Emily Peel 16 ½" x 13" | Irene of Denmark 25" x 21" |  Duchess of Portland 12 ¾" x 11" |Maria Goeppert Mayer 14" x 11 ½ " | Dorothy Grace 12" x 9 ½"

Experimenting with various materials and substrates, these images incorporate mud, rust, hummingbird nectar, styrofoam and ink jet. In keeping with the experimental approach that Ms. Solondz takes to her work, these heads represent a variety of transformative processes and materials.  Spending time at their summer house in New Hampshire, Ms. Solondz began painting heads using local mud and floating the images in the pond to let marks form on them.  Additionally, she was befriended by a hummingbird who would fly into her studio and drink from a feeder, leaving splashes of nectar on the image set up below.  There are a couple examples, as well, of images made on Styrofoam and ink jet images, (made from digital photos of original paintings.)

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