Moontree Art: Emily van Lidth de Jeude - Gallery

Honeybee #1, #2, and #3

These are for sale; $95 each. 8"x10" framed mixed media on canvas board.

Forests!

Left: for sale at $750.00. 30"x40", unframed oil on canvas.

The one on the right is sold.

MAMA

Past Installations: Bowen Island, Victoria and Colwood, B.C. and Port Townsend, WA.

MAMA installation: used bedsheets painted with rough images of expressive mothers of all ages are hung on clotheslines around the installation space. The voices of these mothers are broadcast in the room, and their words painted on linens between the portraits, discussing all sorts of mothering experiences and feelings. Viewers are welcome to touch the sheets and to experience at once the diversity and unity that is motherhood.

SuperMAMA performance: (Performed twice in full and three times as a solo presentation.) About an hour long -- the artist (Emily van Lidth de Jeude) performs a set of songs and poetry about mothering, while a group of mothers dances, paints, mimes, sings and makes music around her. The performance is backed by white bedsheets on a clothesline, where the real and emotional experiences of motherhood are played out as shadows, film, and movement across the cotton.

mamaproject.com. More photos and details of the show are available there.

(photo by Lynda Rive)

Linen Press: Random Ramblings on the Emotional Process of Mothering

Exhibited in Victoria, B.C., 2007.

This is a book about laundry; dirty laundry and laundry trying to be clean, and cleaning, and airing out other people's old laundry for examination and forgiveness. This is a book about having a mother and being a mother.

Linen Press is an accordion book sewn of used children's bed linens. Its hard cover is integrated and held closed with a cotton diaper. It contains 34 pages of poems, photos, comments, and recipes, all from a mother's perspective. It is not all positive, nor all beautiful, but it is honest and even funny at times. It is not particularly controversial. The work is displayed as shown to the right (mostly) hung on a clothesline at eye-level, so that viewers can travel along both sides to read it. Below are images of individual pages, the book open to be read as a traditional book (also possible but not ideal for an exhibition).

Exhibition space required: 30 to 35 feet in a straight line (from one wall to another wall or pillar), where the clothesline is attached. The clothesline dips through the air, 5-7 feet high, so that viewers can easily walk underneath both ends. The book sits in a laundry-basket on a stool at one end of the clothesline, and its pages lift up to the line, where they are hung with wooden pegs.

NOxIOUS

Exhibited in Victoria, B.C., 2008.

NOxIOUS is a tremendously long scroll of gas receipts, upon the back of which is scrawled the NOxIOUS poem. It is to hang from a ceiling at least 2 storeys high, from where it twists elegantly to the floor, ending in a snarled pile of reciepts.

Exhibition space required: 3x3 feet of floor-space, with a vertical rise of 20 to 30 feet. For special events, the piece can have dry ice set under the pile, so that a small cloud of carbon dioxide will drift around the heap of receipts. A draft-free area is necessary for this to work (away from vents, doors, etc.)

Free Pamphlets! Along with the exhibit comes a supply of free photocopied pamphlets, folded book style. The cover has only the title, NOxIOUS. Upon opening, the reader discovers definitions of various carbon oxides and nitrogen oxides, all harmful to human and planetary health, and products of gasoline combustion. On the third opening, the NOxIOUS poem comes into view. And on the very inside is a grey image of a tree-shaped car-deodorizer, with the word NOxIOUS on it.

Night forests with kabouter (gnome) lights.

For sale at $750.00 each. 30"x40", unframed oil on canvas.

Him and Me

Intaglio triptych. Sold.

Books

Most of my books are made as gifts or on contract. These are a few privately-owned books, some of which have been exhibited at the Pacific Festival of the Book in Victoria, B.C..

Oude Wereld/New World (book)

Abstract expressive illutration of Dvorak's 9th symphony. (details)

First Flight

Published in One Cool Word magazine, 2007.

These are stills from a performance, which were then exhibited at the Silk Purse Gallery in West Vancouver, as part of an installation with the wings. The wings are constructed of goose and gull feathers, on an articulated bone-like structure of bamboo. They are sized to fit an average man's shoulders, and to extend with his own arms. The installation is of a typical coat-rack, with keys and wallet dropped on a small table, and the wings hanging among the coats on the rack. Out of the wallet a tattered envelope has fallen, containing a series of photos of the owner of the wings taking his first flight.

Silkie Songs

Stills from a performance in which the artist sings original ballads about the story of a seal-woman, while slowly emerging, fully-dressed, into the ocean.