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Ground Cover 01, (temporary) site-specific fiber installation, New Mexico, 2006

Abigail Doan is a mixed media and environmental installation artist. Her work has been exhibited in conjunction with the United Nation’s Environment Programme, Art into Action/The Natural World Museum, and in curated exhibits worldwide. Abigail is a contributing editor to Supernaturale.com and Inhabitat.com, where she writes about art farming, craft, sustainability, and the use of fiber in the landscape. In 2007 she exhibited her Crocheted Snow series at Lafayette College’s Williams Center Art Gallery, in an exhibit called, “On Ice” and her Tumbleweeds in the show, “Stretched Threads”, at The Atlantic Center for The Arts in Central Florida. She also participated in the 2007 Fiber National Exhibition at the Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster, PA. Her work appears on Greenmuseum.org, the online environmental art museum, and in periodicals such as Knit Knit, and in the DIY book, Craftivity.

“As a geomorphic agent and environmental tinker, I create tactile maps, floating topographies, and in situ souvenirs that highlight the delicate nature of our environs and the degradation of spirit that results from our repeated abuse of natural resources and shared terrain. By festooning and inserting leave-no-trace materials into a landscape, I hope to reinforce the inevitable processes of decay and destruction with galvanized seeds and visual cues that hover as poetic hosts for ecological and narrative propagation.”

“My visual tools for working in the field might include paper garland ropes or knotted string, a crocheted fiber canopy, or hand stitched seeds packets or pods. I might also allow fiber to move freely over a soil or vegetal surface in order to pick up small organic bits like dust, seeds, and vegetal particles in the same manner that tumbleweed collects and carries information over terrain. My final documentation of a site consists of drawings, photographs, sculptural fiber or (non-harvested) vegetation bundles, crocheted forms, assemblage maps, and, writings.”

Learn more about Doan’s work on her blog.
View images of Doan’s work HERE