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Ritual 1: Albers and Solnit

The thanking begins

A chunk of gessoed gator board sits on my drafting table; paintbrushes and color tests are in the background
Thank you/Ilana Glaser, Ijeoma Oluo, Samin Nosrat, Roxane Gay, and Debbie Millman

The thanking begins.

Not ready to show all but these are some of the viewable results so far. Some of the thanked are Anni Albers, Rebecca Solnit, Ann Sacks, Ilhan Omar, and Claire Saffitz.

A pair of glasses rests on a sheet of rives paper with India ink offset in puddles, patches, and dot grids from a sheet of embroidery plastic.
Thank you, Ann Sacks!
Practice calligraphy on rives paper says thank you many times, overlapping. The names are cropped out but Rebecca, Prince, and Ilhan are discernible.
Thank you, Rebecca Solnit, Ilhan Omar, Squid Licker, Prince!
Red-orange, phthalo blue, viridian, and yellow paint swirl and puddle together as layers of wet and dry calligraphy overlap each other.
Thank you, Ilana Glaser, Ijeoma Oluo, Samin Nosrat, Roxane Gay, and Debbie Millman
Red-orange, phthalo blue, viridian, and yellow calligraphy flow into each other while light reflects the front window on the wet top layer.
Thank you, Ilana Glaser, Ijeoma Oluo, Samin Nosrat, Roxane Gay, and Debbie Millman (detail)

By Elena Grossman

Elena Grossman is an artist and educator practicing visual art, graphic design, and programming for exhibition spaces, print, and screen media. Learn more about Elena