Kathy Hastings

Intersections and Crossings

This series came from a hard time in my life…after my husband died and I began looking again at my spirituality. That’s been many years ago now, but I still believe the finite does cross the infinite, that new beginnings come from endings, that life comes from death…

CROSSING POEM

6 X 10 PHOTO ON PANEL $48.

INTERSECTIONS AND CROSSINGS

9 X 12 Panels - $118.00 each 16 X 20 Panels - $385.00 each

SQUARE

8 X 8 Panel - $88.00 12 X 12 Panel - $175.00 16 X 16 Panel - $295.00 - $315.00

HORIZONTALS

VERTICALS

The Story of Prosperity Eight: This image was taken from a closeup of the Kodiak Queen, a decorated WWII Navy Barge believed to be one of only five ships to survive Pearl Harbor. After the war it was converted into a commercial fishing trawler in Alaska until it was decommissioned around 2000 - when it ended up abandoned in the British Virgin Islands, slated for scrap metal. Fast forward fifteen years or so when photographer Owen Buggy brings the idea to Sir Richard Branson to use the boat as an artificial reef/art exhibit and major dive attraction. In April of 2017, the boat - now in the grip of an 80 foot long sculpture of a Kraken - is towed to open water and sunk.

A short documentary narrated by Kate Winslet tells the story: robsorrenti.film/kodiakqueen

ARTIST STATEMENT

Water related images have intrigued me since my student days at Art Center College of Design. My current work is a combination of digital photography and encaustic techniques.

On calm days you may find me in a kayak on a NW waterway photographing the ever-changing surfaces around me, capturing what is reflected in, what floats upon, and what lies beneath the surface. Back in the studio I digitally edit the photos and print them on watercolor paper. For texture and translucency I then fuse layers of melted beeswax to each print, along with oil pastels, oil paint, alcohol inks, and mica powder.

In my Waterlines Series I’m drawn to the enigmatic markings and the beauty I see in the oxidized hulls of workboats. Intersections and Crossings grew from this series when I limited my selection to only the perpendicular lines I found in the welds, paint drips, scratches and indentations.

For me the muse is the water. The delight is in experimenting with the blending of new and traditional. The joy is in paying attention.