2011, soil and acrylic on canvas, collected organic materials and personal icons, 8 feet x 36 in. x 8 in. NFS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just sticks and stones and dirt and rock in North Seattle artist Betty Hageman\u2019s Soil Horizons\/Personal Horizons, though this mixed-media installation might seem so at first. Hageman combines earth-stained canvas and Plexiglass vitrines filled with natural, gathered materials to suggest how her internal processes reflect and parallel the Earth\u2019s own processes of accrual. She compares \u201csoil horizons\u201d, i.e., layers of rock and dirt, to strata from her own life. Hageman created her own \u201cpersonal horizons\u201d with family photos integrated with boulders and parent rock. Other materials include compost, soil, charcoal, and acrylic paint. Hageman\u2019s work is a reminder that life, like the planet\u2019s geology, is formed under pressure of time. And time, along with memory, is layered into her art.\u201d
\u2013KAT CHOW, Seattle Weekly, January 19, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2011, soil and acrylic on canvas, collected organic materials and personal icons, 8 feet x 36 in. x 8 in. NFS \u201cIt\u2019s not just sticks and stones and dirt and rock in North Seattle artist Betty Hageman\u2019s Soil Horizons\/Personal Horizons, though this mixed-media installation might seem so at first. Hageman [\u2026] <\/p>\n

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