Dana Lind

 

I work with stone and glass ... it grounds me.

I photograph to inspire myself and others.

Designs imagined, must find a place to be.

 

          I was born in Southern California, where life is experienced in condensed spaces - squeezing up from every available inch of asphalt and concrete - I developed a creative nature. 

          I spent most of the 80's & 90's working in marketing and advertising, owning a local agency called ADTECH and a small glossy named Mariner Magazine. I was able to maintain the bridge of being an artist, and representing other creatives, though often too busy to explore the depths of my own art during that time. It wasn't until moving east in 1989 that I experienced a new awareness of the flora and fauna around me and it touched my soul.  I don't think I ever really saw color until moving east.  The morning sunrise on the water, shades of bark on the trees, the turning of the leaves, the fragrance of the forest, the sounds of the life within. Bees foraging in kaleidoscope gardens ... the sea roaring and crashing on rocky ledge ... the tide surging, and in its retreat, leaving a fresh pallet at each turn - of textures and treasures by the pocket full!  We have lived by the beautiful shore of Maine since 1995 and it is home.  

         I work with wood and stone, and glass and flowers, and treasures left by the sea. 

The grain and texture of stone, the cool, smooth and unimaginable age of it. Glass made from silica and minerals, bold and vulnerable. And the miraculous Flora - its incredible structure, colors and textures, the surprises within and the ephemeral quality of such beauty. 

         An artists journey never ends, be it a trip to Venice to study at the Orsoni Factory, returning with kilos of Smalti or at the rivers edge in Quebec on a treasured fishing trip, then hauling bags of rocks and treasured bits home. Or just walking the beaches in Maine, Nova Scotia or Newport.

          My visual vocabulary, born on the rocky coast of Maine, strengthens and grows with ongoing exploration, and appreciation of the beauty left by the forest and the sea, and the gardens around me.

I find comfort and peace in them, I hope you will too.

 

Dana