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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Innocent movement. Salley's art focuses on the movement beneath thought.
She derives her inspiration from the ancient arts of Mesopotamia and India which show the figure in linear sequences doing activities of every day life.
Salley takes this notion of moving through an ordinary day into another realm - figures tip, lean, drop, and float - as if in a dream.
Salley's current body of work is rozome on silk. For some linear elements, Salley incorporates the use of a waterbased French resist.
In simple terms, rozome is a Japanese art using wax resist and painting with dyes, somewhat similar to watercolor.
The longheld secrets of rozome - soy preparation, unique brushes, and sophisticated uses of wax and dye - have only recently been revealed to artists outside Japan.
The reward for the challenging technique of rozome is a work of brilliant color and subtle shadings.
Salley's background is in batik, photography, filmmaking and painting. She studied at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, University of Maine, University of Washington, and Middlebury College. She lives with her husband and four children in Brookline, MA and Squam Lake, NH.
Her rozome was on display at the World Batik Conference in Boston during June 2005.
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