artist statement
 

I am drawn to

the slow erosion of time
the quick energy of a moment

rock stratum imprinting a story long since told
flowers dying in a vase on a kitchen table

the fading layers of dreams and memories we leave behind -
but that never fully lift their marks on us.

I am trying to understand my feelings about time and my fragmented understanding of it. Inspired by a mix of Memento Mori messaging and Cy Twombly marks of the moment, I am exploring the energy and joy of the present, the layers of our past, and a reminder that it is all fragile and temporary. We are grasses in the field, here one day and gone the next. As J.R.R Tolkien says so well - “ All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Addie DeLong received her B.S. in fine art and business from Eastern Oregon University in 2014. After graduation she moved to Bend Oregon and as of 2023 is the head art teacher at Trinity Lutheran School. She has had shows downtown Bend, at Lone Pine, and at Art Center East in LaGrande. She continues to pursue her art goals as a mama of three young children.