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Marcie Scudder is a lens-based multi-disciplinary artist. Her work explores the connections between the human experience and the ephemeral circles and cycles of nature’s seasons. She examines the dualities between fragility and loss; rebirth and renewal. Her art is about the conversations between generations. It’s about honoring and remembering - how one remembers, what one remembers, and who.
Her work is about gratitude and joy. It’s about what it means to be alive. and to experience with all five sense.
Scudder has an MFA in Visual Arts from Maine Media College, and a B.Arch. in Architecture from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute. Her work has been exhibited in various spaces including The Wilson Museum at Southern Vermont Arts Center; The Kent Museum: Studio Place Arts; SE Center for Photography; and Davis-Orton Gallery. Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as Lenscratch, Still Points Quarterly, NE Home Magazine, Stowe Magazine and Catchlight.
After almost 3 decades of managing her own Architectural practice, Scudder turned to photography as a means of creative expression. Her recent work marries the two practices together by transforming her photographs into 3-dimensional objects that sculpt and shape space.
Scudder lives and works in Stowe, VT. Winter is long. Summer is fleeting. Time is measured by the changing length of the days.
“If you work with your hands, you’re a laborer. If you work with your hands and your mind, you’re a craftsman.
If you work with your hands and your mind and your heart, you’re an artist.”
-Saint Francis Assisi
I begin with a photograph. I print. I cut and fold, sew and sculpt the imagery into three-dimensional quilt-like abstract paper sculptures and objects that occupy, shape and define space. My process is slow, repetitive, mindful, meditative. It is one in which I am fully present to the experience of making. I re-construct, re-envision and re-create. I play with scale and how it transforms and informs, affecting one’s proprioception and sense of movement through space. The end results are often fully immersive, offering the viewer a moment’s pause to feel.
My camera has become only one tool in my creative toolbox. For me, the photograph is a portal into the possibility of my own adventure. From this starting point, I allow my mind and my hands to wander without needing to know. I make art because I can, and because I am. It’s how I learn, how I connect, how I feel.
In the process of creating, I have come to understand a critical piece of my internal being: I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. Although it is something I once resisted, I now welcome it as an imperative call to honor and remember, to share stories, to live and to love. In the midst of life’s uncertainties, I seek beauty. I explore the mystery of abstraction and joy of play. I embrace the unseen opportunities in the re-imagining and re-shaping what I capture through my camera’s lens.
When my mother died, I was left with her house and her garden. My work is physically, spiritually, metaphorically rooted in that garden.
WE ARE ALL OUR MOTHER’S GARDENS
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Emailmarcie@marciescudder.com
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Phone6174135494
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Websitehttp://www.marciescudder.com
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