Week Eight

Gloria Lamson


"Using a variety of natural and common materials I create temporary site responsive installations and interactions in nature and architectural environments.  Motivated by a desire to reconcile physical and spiritual realities, I explore ways to connect thought and action while creating visual metaphors.  I’m interested in bringing the inside out, and the outside in, both in nature and psyche.  My intention is to invoke a deeper connection to the worlds within and around us."  Artfully blending her love of photography with a passion for the outdoors, Gloria Lamson's art is, in her words "a vehicle for exploration". She incorporates fire, water, earth, chalk, survey tape, twine, flour and other materials to create temporary forms in the landscape. Many of her photographs are the result of repeated interactions with a site and involve a series of images over time marking the disintegration or alteration of a piece through natural forces. Waves wash flour forms off a beach and rearrange a kelp circle. A gunpowder flash creates a mushroom cloud of fire on a sheet of paper floated onto still waters. Gloria Lamson's art documents her experience of place and allows the rest of us to join her. Simple lines, circles and markings on the land magically activate the space around them and reveal underlying patterns and forms. Gloria Lamson began processing her own black and white photographs in 1970. Since 1975, she has published and exhibited her work extensively in Washington and California, through one-person shows, installations, group exhibitions, and slide presentations. In 1995, while living in the San Francisco Bay area, she began working in nature, exploring art making as interaction with time, place and self. She pursued the idea of the environment as her studio and human conversation as a creative model. Wanting to integrate nature and culture, art and life, solitude and community, love and work, she has evolved a unique way of working which generates singular imagery.



GMO Foods proven to alter organ function....

Monsanto's position? We shouldn't even be attentive to studying the effects of GMO foods in humans. I think its funny, mother nature has spent millions of years creating the things that keep us alive, and making the things we enjoy. We have spent millions of years adapting to what has been created for us. And a group of people think they can do better for a few bucks. Additionally, the health hazards of GM foods are mostly unknown because biotechnology companies do not allow independent researchers to publish studies done on GM seeds. In order to obtain the seeds, scientists must sign an agreement to only publish studies in peer-review journals that have been approved by the company. These companies essentially produce consumer propaganda, putting public health at risk. Thus, the health and safety risks associated with GM foods are significant enough to prevent it from becoming the solution to global problems and must be assessed.