Living Space:
Portraits through Appreciative Inquiry
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In this project, Stephanie worked in oil paint and etching ink to produce 120 pieces of art: portraits of 30 people, with four pieces created for each of the participating sitters. Rather than using a traditional portraiture sitting, resulting in a work based on a person’s physicality, Stephanie painted an interpretation of each sitter’s response to an “appreciative inquiry,” an inquiry that probes respondents’ strengths. In short, facilitated essays, sitters—all survivors of complex relational trauma and sexual violence—told their stories, explored their qualities, achievements, goals, as well as their concepts of safety and love. |
Monotype in oil and etching ink
Making Amends Is More Than An Apology
Within Without
Verge of Reckoning
Imbrue
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Tendrils of Compassion
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Brume
Unburdened View
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Former Relationship with Myself
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Studies in Blue and Black
Landscapes and Seascapes
The Distance Between, 16" x 20"
Saltscape I
Scent of Reclamation
Spring's Breath
Mouth of the River Mid-tide
Foundering
Moments, Memory, and Perception
My Keeper's Garden
When Memories Age
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A Song for Tomorrow
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Softly Wildly
