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Portrait of Vicki Ragan
Portrait of Vicki Ragan
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
When New York went into lockdown last March, I started walking daily to relieve my anxiety and cabin fever. Being sedentary by nature, I tricked myself into enjoying these outings by turning them into opportunities to make visual
observations. When the weather warmed, I started walking the shoreline and beachcombing. Afterwards as I sorted my findings, a natural rhythm emerged, as if coming from the ocean itself. I mounted sets of things on black velvet display boards, giving the objects the formality of precious gems.
We try to make sense out of things by accumulating, sorting and preserving. I have always been an accumulator. I collect objects and arrange them into still lifes for the camera. I post a daily still life on my vickiragan Instagram site and more at www.lightzone.org.
Beachcombing Grid 1
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Beachcombing Grid 2
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Beachcombing Shells 1
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Beachcombing Feathers 1
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Beachcombing Sea Pebbles 1
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Beachcombing Sand Dollars 1
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Beachcombing Sea Pebbles 2
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Beachcombing Shell Fragments 1
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Beachcombing Sea Pebbles 3
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Beachcombing Sea Pebbles 4
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Beachcombing Crab Shells 1
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Beachcombing Crab Shells 2
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