https://www.bellefleure.work/projects daily 1.0 2020-12-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/581e1ab56b8f5b2e554d2a0a/1478367926282/bird-hand-Belle_9163.jpg Art work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/589122df8419c227312de8c6/1485906633129/ Art work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/589265ff2e69cf9de008b9ad/1485989320686/ Art work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/5f727d08e9149e32e8cb4cd6/1478369347413/ Art work - Messenger https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/5fdf9350f11f517dbbdd22ff/1608487719253/ Art work - Manumit Steel slip case of book, engraved title and artist initials (on back) Manumit, the title means to release from slavery, the Latin form of the word, manmittere is to release from ones hand. Within the book we find a poem by George Moses Horton “On Liberty and Slavery”. While still in slavery Horton was the first black slave to ever publish a book of poetry. This all before he knew how to write. The images are not speaking directly to issues of slavery for African Americans of that era, but of a more global notion of bondage and longing for liberty. Hortons’ poem has a way of capturing this essence and I tried to create unique images that would represent each stanza as such. https://www.bellefleure.work/about-1 daily 0.75 2020-09-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/582107c9ebbd1afe178aef60/1478559690689/Missif_belle-peek+6.jpg About https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/590a4cf38419c273fe4c8e0e/1493847315038/Belle-portrait-Scan+24.jpg About https://www.bellefleure.work/new-gallery daily 0.75 2020-10-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/5f88d26d50b9c56e5d641893/1602802285334/ Past Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/589122f22e69cfa5176b6efa/5891256be6f2e18d48801e97/1602802285334/ring1_set1-5.jpg Past Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/589122f22e69cfa5176b6efa/5891e395893fc0ca96bb96b8/1485955990414/IsabelleFleurelien%C2%A9_POA-0247sm.jpg Past Work 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https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/589127f68419c227312e33c9/1485907907343/ Muse https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/58912795be65942a86d873c2/589127afa5790a492c7dceb8/1485907907343/IsabelleFleurelien%C2%A9_Muse-2A.jpg Muse https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/58912795be65942a86d873c2/589127be15d5dbb9c9d4c019/1485907924685/IsabelleFleurelien%C2%A9_Muse-3.jpg Muse https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/58912795be65942a86d873c2/589127ae197aea16e62d96be/1485907946063/IsabelleFleurelien%C2%A9_Muse-1A.jpg Muse https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/58912795be65942a86d873c2/589127d159cc682602b35b24/1485907944350/IsabelleFleurelien%C2%A9_MUSE-4.jpg Muse https://www.bellefleure.work/early daily 0.75 2020-09-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/5f728b852c84425f7dde2f93/1528954547890/ Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21fead562fa72177aed580/1528954547890/CVR-WH-C2-woman-sm.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21feb42b6a289051955119/1601342340781/LUK-promo+B.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21feb5758d469f8d7c3bf2/1601342341234/LUK-promo+E.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21feb70e2e728923324e09/1601342340836/P15-rouge-8X11.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21feb92b6a2890519551c8/1601342340833/P16-rouge+bath+8X11.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21fec1f950b71812998cca/1601342340831/P20-troy+eyes.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21fece1ae6cf0f3f8eb8d5/1601342340836/P14-spun+B%26W.jpg Early Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5b21fbc0575d1f9090d8375f/5b21fea988251bb8fa2d5f86/1601342340855/angry+rabbit_7506A3.jpg Early Work https://www.bellefleure.work/seepress daily 0.75 2020-12-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/5fdf8cd9f5f64226565f666a/1608486105605/ Undāre (collaborative artist book) - Undāre Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition) Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ Book binder: Belle Fleure Undāre From the Latin word to flow, undulate and/or rise in waves This book is a reflective work that creates an intimate and personal space to contemplate water. It’s spiritual and purifying properties as well as its more ominous and foreboding qualities are the focus. Water provides us with a primal connection that reaches beyond ourselves to our collective memories and histories. The meditative trance in its stillness, ripples, swirling eddies or rushing water is what Undāre embodies. Water has recently shifted to a monetary commodity, highlighting its potential loss through Climate change. The viewer is invited to ponder its value and look beyond its surface challenging our mortality as well as that of the planet. The elements in this work represent the building blocks that sustains us and the experience of reading it a ceremony. The book is water, the pages its flow and the stone what lies beneath. Its container suggests a commemoratory vessel honouring the memory of something that has yet to pass. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f7286116ea5c001972fff93/5f7286ab4d0bb8349aa2e887/1608486105605/Copy+of+03_SR_2019_UndarebookBox.jpg Undāre (collaborative artist book) - Undāre Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition) Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ Book binder: Belle Fleure Undāre From the Latin word to flow, undulate and/or rise in waves This book is a reflective work that creates an intimate and personal space to contemplate water. It’s spiritual and purifying properties as well as its more ominous and foreboding qualities are the focus. Water provides us with a primal connection that reaches beyond ourselves to our collective memories and histories. The meditative trance in its stillness, ripples, swirling eddies or rushing water is what Undāre embodies. Water has recently shifted to a monetary commodity, highlighting its potential loss through Climate change. The viewer is invited to ponder its value and look beyond its surface challenging our mortality as well as that of the planet. The elements in this work represent the building blocks that sustains us and the experience of reading it a ceremony. The book is water, the pages its flow and the stone what lies beneath. Its container suggests a commemoratory vessel honouring the memory of something that has yet to pass. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f7286116ea5c001972fff93/5f728647294be10059c0eb21/1608485986124/Russ-Fleure-2.jpg Undāre (collaborative artist book) - Undāre Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition) Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ Book binder: Belle Fleure https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f7286116ea5c001972fff93/5f7286df294be10059c0fd6c/1608486008190/Russ-Fleure-3.jpg Undāre (collaborative artist book) - Undāre Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition) Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ Book binder: Belle Fleure https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f7286116ea5c001972fff93/5f728682697fec0f70a4fcf5/1608486026784/IMG_8545-3.JPG Undāre (collaborative artist book) - Undāre Awarded Prix Francine-Turcotte 2019 (Deuxième édition) Book Conception by: Belle Fleure & Stephanie Russ Artwork featured: Stephanie Russ Book binder: Belle Fleure https://www.bellefleure.work/boat-stories daily 0.75 2020-12-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/t/5fdf92916a6ad7222f2fa8af/1608486531692/ Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. With this latest project we wanted to further our collaborative approach and reached out to others for stories that in some way related to travels and life on the water. This resulted in the creation of five books nestled in the ceramic vessel that resembles a barnacle. The humpback barnacle attaches itself to the body of a humpback whale and through this symbiotic relationship spends its life travelling the ocean. This natural collaboration between whale and crustacean inspired our desire to work with others and seek out their stories. Materials: Ceramics (Raku porcelain mix), Screen print, Inkjet Dimensions: Book closed_3.75” X 4” X.25” (open 42.5” // 34” // Star Map 15” X34”) Ceramics_4”H x 5”W to 13”H x 14”W (6-7 in varying sizes) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f72877818e0a022b5dac199/5f7287946c7b7626629be0d1/1608486531692/Copy+of+07_SR_2019_Boat+stories.-jpg.jpg Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. With this latest project we wanted to further our collaborative approach and reached out to others for stories that in some way related to travels and life on the water. This resulted in the creation of five books nestled in the ceramic vessel that resembles a barnacle. The humpback barnacle attaches itself to the body of a humpback whale and through this symbiotic relationship spends its life travelling the ocean. This natural collaboration between whale and crustacean inspired our desire to work with others and seek out their stories. Materials: Ceramics (Raku porcelain mix), Screen print, Inkjet Dimensions: Book closed_3.75” X 4” X.25” (open 42.5” // 34” // Star Map 15” X34”) Ceramics_4”H x 5”W to 13”H x 14”W (6-7 in varying sizes) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f72877818e0a022b5dac199/5f7287aee9149e32e8ccd30b/1608486605098/Copy+of+Russ_Fleure-BoatStories-CVR.jpg Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories _Cover of books Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. Materials: Screen print, Inkjet Dimensions: Book closed_3.75” X 4” X.25” (open 42.5” // 34” // Star Map 15” X34”) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f72877818e0a022b5dac199/5f7287cde9149e32e8ccda0f/1608487490585/star+map+Full_DSC0428.jpg Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories _ Star Map side 2, inspired by Jorame Solibaga Materials: Screen print, Inkjet Dimensions: Star Map 15” X34” Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f72877818e0a022b5dac199/5f728821c5d4692dc9f6172f/1608487476333/Star+map+TEXT_DSC0426.jpg Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories _ Star Map side 1, cover with text by Jorame Solibaga Materials: Screen print, Inkjet Dimensions: Star Map 15” X34” Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f72877818e0a022b5dac199/5f728b233a0ad95f91b2be98/1608487569926/Copy+of+Russ_Fleure-BoatStories-Cath.jpg Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories _ Depth, poem by Catherine Cruz Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. Materials: Screen print, Inkjet Dimensions: Book closed 3.75” X 4” X.25” (open 34”) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5710342b2eeb81859a62e437/5f72877818e0a022b5dac199/5f728b3d6ea5c0019730bb5d/1608487358682/Copy+of+Russ_Fleure-BoatStories-Nate.jpg Boat Stories (collaborative artist book) - Boat Stories _ untitled: story by Nathaniel Penn Boat Stories (2019) is a collaborative project with Isabelle Fleurelien and Stephanie Russ. 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