#067 - Summer Camp - Ellen Rutt
#067 - Summer Camp - Ellen Rutt
Destination: Camp Wandawega, Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Date: 20 - 24 September, 2020
About Ellen Rutt
With an abstract vocabulary of shapes, textures, and primary colours, Ellen Rutt creates her own visual language through mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and a variety of wearables. Through her work Ellen tells a symbolic narrative of connectivity and dissonance, through which she questions the ways we create meaning from non-sense. Her work often features an immersive, performative quality, encouraging the participation of both artist and audience.
You can find more work of Ellen on her website: www.ellenrutt.com
Summer Camp
Ellen Rutt is one of the four artists of our Jaunt Summer Camp 2020. Together with four other artists we are sending them for a short and pleasurable retreat at Camp Wandawega, just two hours outside of Chicago. Connecting with each other, with nature, and sharing creative processes along the way.
Details about the print
Dimensions: ± 50 x 70 cm
Medium: three colours silkscreen print
Edition: 50 prints, signed and numbered by the artist
A little word by Ellen…
“If 2020 has taught me anything it’s that nothing is certain, everything has been different than I imagined. Don’t try to plan ahead, it’s pointless. My expectation leading up to this trip was that it, like everything else, would get canceled. I truly didn’t even think it would happen until the day of. I packed in a frenzy and had almost no idea where I was going because I assumed I wouldn't actually get to go.I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to step away from isolated, pandemic life and sped time with other artists, in a beautiful and restorative environment.
Camp Wandawega where we stayed, was incredible. Upon arriving Ash, who works there, gave us an incredibly in-depth history tour of the property. Because of Covid restrictions, we were pretty much the only ones at the camp, so we got to explore the property freely and hang out in the cabins and tents. Bakpak and I slept in the former brothel house the first night and then switched to this really dreamy A frame structure the next night.
I was really inspired by the ways that nature, play, and exploration were integrated into every aspect of the camp and I wonder how those foundational principles can be catalysts for creating a world that transcends the current constructed realities. Inspired by my experiences I made two prints. One of them is a treasure map, or maybe more of a scavenger hunt. Your first clue will be revealed when you join or contribute to a local environmental justice or abolitionist organization near you. The second print is a landscaping interpretation where land is collectively owned by everyone and native plants replace lawns."
