Last summer Ceramics
Art and Perception, an Australian
ceramics magazine distributed internationally,
published Corinne
D. Peterson: Unearthing the Immutable, an
article by Elizabeth Reichert. I was also
included in Sculpture
Invasion, the
catalog for last summer’s Chicago
Sculpture International exhibition at Oakton
Community College.
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Unexpectedly,
in January, 2008, I experienced a time of artistic
and spiritual renewal at the Ragdale Foundation,
enriched by William Carlos Williams poetry,
wire found in a smoldering fire, and time to
reflect and to paint with encaustics.
The New Wandering
encaustic and found metal
on birchwood
15"h x 17"w x 4"d
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Also
in January, Layers of History, Layers of
Meaning, was installed in the new Latin
Middle School entrance.
Designed
and fabricated in close collaboration with
Ginny Sykes, the mural incorporates dream,
metaphor and memory to represent transforming
movements of both human and geologic activity
in Chicago’s history and future. An integration
of glass mosaic and porcelain tile create a
multi-layered symbolic landscape. A rusty iron
heart at its center pays homage to Nelson Algren’s
ode to Chicago, City on the Make. It also contains
some small fossil like elements from student
work embedded in clay.
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