It’s good to know people who are artistic and have a masters in something cool. Our good friend Lauren McLeary now fulfills both of those criteria. Most of you know she’s been developing her art skills while completing grad school at Washington State University— but this month she’s done! (other graduation shout-outs to Jenny Mudlo and Kelly Shaw!) Lauren is allowing us to share photos from her thesis project, titled “Between Being” this weekend. We are committed to making Lauren a local artist hero. So…. read her artist statement, and check out her grand design after that… 
ArtistStatement/lauren mccleary/www.ponybird.com My work is a nod to the imagination, propaganda for wonder. People are consistently absent from my imagery, but the work speaks to our humanity. For thousands of years the land and the animals have been our greatest teachers. It is the silence of each that says so much. The land constantly gifts visual surprises and stirs a curiosity that can’t be found within closed walls. Places I have seen, been, and imagined layer my mind. The work is made to share with others these things in which I take delight. I want the audience to recall a time when they looked at the world with wonder, I ask them to ponder the mystery of reality, hoping for it to sink in and stir.
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How am I ever going to go out in public again? This will surely shoot me straight into fame.
And I must add that i was fortunate enough to see this masterpiece in person…and pictures just can’t do it justice!