Recovery Panes
“No person in our society is free from the affects of addiction”
RECOVERY PANES HEALING ARTS PROJECT
Creating art to process, inspire and educate on the impact of addiction
with the support of a Project Grant from Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC)
“Recovery Panes” is a multi-phase community project involving those who have been impacted by addiction. Participants created a small encaustic painting that represented their personal experience, strength and hope. The complex elements of encaustic, a molten beeswax based paint, uniquely allowed a symbolic and cathartic exploration of their experiences. Participants also shared a reflective written response to the process to be paired with their art.
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 with 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 an accompanying catalog will be shown at Portland Center for the Performing Arts from January 5th, 2012 – April 2nd, 2012.