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To Lucy Ruth Wright Rivers art and the creative process is an all-consuming, worldly enterprise that combines physical, mental, and emotional elements into the three-dimensional circus that is her work. "I like making pieces that you can look at and look through and look in," she says, "I like making shapes in space. I like to use wire because it allows me to draw in space. I like to use beads because they are color and story and texture." Her work is complex, colorful, and thoughtfully expands the bounds of what the modern world of art would label craft.
Many of her most recent pieces are "mosaic tapestries", using mostly wire and beads. The surface of these works are also the structure. She utilizes objects overlooked and discarded by others, objects that have the ability to relate experiences or tell stories. Combining these materials, she is able create something entirely new based on the power and draw of the individual elements.
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