ABOUT THE ART...AND THE ARTIST
A bit of history ~ and explanation
A bit of history ~ and explanation
A bit of history ~ and explanation
Kevin Ducoing lives in West Seattle. He has lived in Washington since 1982 when his family left California and put down roots in the Pacific Northwest. Kevin immediately felt the draw of PNW aesthetic; damp, but clean and crisp...and most times, almost monochromatic. Growing up here influenced Kevin’s work deeply. He attended The Art Institute of Seattle and was further influenced there by one of his teachers, Bill Cumming.
Currently Kevin is painting daily in West Seattle, and working as a fine art photographer and fine art reproduction specialist in the SODO neighborhood of Seattle.
The Flying Houses
A bit of history ~ and explanation
A bit of history ~ and explanation
Our interaction with trees and forests runs deep in our existence. Where we are pleased to experience two or three generations of people, a tree easily experiences five, ten or more generations of people. Kevin's desire is to express this curiosity of modern living next to wilderness - with the feeling that it is actually we who are the characters in a told story. We are the ghost stories; the local lore, and the landscape tells its own stories about us.
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'The Blue House' is the encompassing name for this body of work. These pieces personalize the experience of transitioning, or pulling up roots and moving into unfamiliar places or states of mind, and express these moments in time as a mix of natural and designed landscapes through which we wander.
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Their presence in my work can be interpreted as plain fact, a question, or as a wry commentary of our interaction with the land on which we live. Imagining our most obvious legacy -our homes, our neighborhoods, our towns- as experienced from the landscape's point of view, what if the land itself could tell the tale of us, the humans. Are we just part of the overall surrounding landscape? Are we an invasion, or threat? In this collection, our presence in the world can be imagined as a flying house moving through the landscape, as from a ghost story, or a science fiction movie.
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