HeyJaredStudio Albertine with Robin Rivers
Studio Albertine is the home of artist, photographer, and writer Robin Rivers. She creates from conversations with ancient ponds and old trees, spirits of place and old ones whose lost stories want to be told.
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The Defensible Case for Becoming the Evil Witch In The Woods (opens the original)
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History is either hot or cold on women and power. Either it goes all Joan of Arc and makes her the hero for God and country or they are harlots, whores, sorceress’ who couldn’t have possibly gained her power from any other means than seduction or trickery. Sovereign women scare the hell out of men. Personal agency, power beyond imagination, one of the original nine queens of Avalon: the mighty Morgana of Arthurian lore arguably ranks as the scariest of them all in Western literature.<p class="ct
Celebrating Canadian-made (opens the original)
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It’s my favourite season. The rains return to Vancouver. Temperatures cool to a tolerable 16C. I love fall. I feel at home this time of year. So, time in the studio is at maximum.That being said, many of you have heard that the new tariffs against Canada hit artists at our very core. Our lovely American collectors (thank you so much for collecting my work) are now hit with a 50% price increase. Not because we as artists want to jack up those prices, but because we just got hit with a 50% tariff
Reincarnation, Do We Keep Coming Back? (opens the original)
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c. 186423x36”Mixed media collage on Wood<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1672" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!60cJ!,w_
Women, Death, & Jewelry Made of Hair (opens the original)
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Mourning Brooch: the Victorian woman’s answer to impermanence: grief made wearable, portable, and inherited. A piece of jewelry worn to commemorate a deceased loved one, often featuring symbols of grief, such as weeping willows or urns, and may include inscriptions or a lock of hair from the deceased. These brooches were particularly popular during the Victorian era as tokens of remembrance.I began this three-piece series a while back. It’s got quite an origin story. Skein traces it across three
On Grandmothers & Missing Healers (opens the original)
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Szeptucha (pronounced: Shep-too-hah) or sometimes szeptunka, which translates as ‘whisperer’ or ‘one who whispers’, is a term used to describe traditional Polish woman-healers practising predominantly in Podlasie, and less notedly in other parts of the country such as Roztocze and Podkarpacie. Their story is closely linked to Poland’s eastern frontier, an area influenced by the mysticism of Orthodox Christianity.Szeptucha (The Whisper)23x36”<h4
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