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About She Sees Studio and Colleen Steenhagen:
Since photography has always been a source of inspiration for her and a means of meditatively exploring nature, Colleen often finds herself walking along the timeless shores of Lake Michigan. In addition to the waves and the clouds, her eyes also fall upon the many ‘gifts’ left at the water’s edge: rocks, rust, feathers, bones, beachwood & glass, anything torn, tattered and weathered.
She gathers bags and boxes of found materials from the beaches, intrigued by the altered remnants which have been transformed by the elements. She “creates from them and with them, as if directed by some gentle force to see what's unseen and to give them a new life,” resulting in the emergence of Little Spirits, Spirit Sticks, Spirit Hues Pendants, Story Stones & and abstract or mixed media compositions. “I see it as co-creating with nature, dissolving boundaries of time and place.” Colleen is a mixed media artist who likes to blend her found objects with photography, fabric, ink & wax, in collage, assemblage or mobile forms. Colleen began her university studies at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI and then at University of New Orleans. Before she obtained her degree, her life path shifted and she began traveling the world to countries such as Guatemala, Nepal, India and Thailand. Always with camera in hand she intensely observed different cultures and different lands. Two decades later after owning a storefront in Kenosha for 7 years, she changed her path once again and returned to school at UW Parkside where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Arts: Sculpture, Photography and Printmaking. One of her sculptures, a movable, metal flower, “Blossom,” is on permanent display on the grounds of UW Parkside, Kenosha, WI. |
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