Melody Fortier

Gilding The Forest Floor

gilded paper clay casts, embellished wood boxes, hand-assembled table, velvet, found sycamore branches

69″ x 43″ x 21″

2024

This piece is a tribute to our surrounding New England woodlands. Each box contains a gilded, paper clay cast of objects I collected from the forest floor (nuts, pinecones, leaves and the like). The fallen sycamore branches were gathered from those same woods. Sycamore was chosen as it symbolizes resilience and protection.

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Melody Fortier

Sacred Cadence of Decay and Genesis

Inspired by: Henry George Todd, Study of Strawberries

watercolor paint and watercolor pencil on acid free cold pressed paper

28″ x 22″ (unframed) 29″ x 23″ (framed)

2024

My painting is a celebration of the rhythm, the cadence if you will, of the life process. Desiccation and decay coexist along side the promise of regeneration that resides in the dried kernels. For me this sacred design of nature is beyond miraculous, I am an avid gardener and my gardens are my sanctuary. I chose to paint a single cob, floating, perhaps ascending, as a nod to the mystery, the power and the divine that is interwoven into this cycle. We cannot exist without it.

/Artist Melody Fortier