Rachel Nelson-Smith
On Blogger since: August 2007
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | artist |
| Location | Santa Cruz, California |
| Introduction | Common experience, where people meet in mind and body, guides my work. Of a working class background and as an academic, I believe in pluralist strength. In my practice of sculpture and ephemeral public works, I investigate issues of society and mortality on contemporary and classic timelines. Current work includes collaboration with an astrophysicist on rendering the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation on a interactive human scale and reclaiming breathe as a counterpoint to technological apnea. |
| Interests | beads, beadwork, beadweaving, beading, wire, wirework, local travel, California travel, world travel, teaching, roller coasters, Santa Cruz, jazz singing, jazz, bebop, swing, vocalese, orchids, kidney stones, carpel tunnel, ocean, beaches, California |
| Favorite movies | Like Water For Chocolate, Nacho Libre, The Wiz, A Fish Called Wanda, Pan's Labyrinth |
| Favorite music | bop jazz, bebop jazz, vocalese jazz, vocal jazz, ambient, lounge, gypsy, flamenco, Indian, Bollywood, Tom Waits |
| Favorite books | A Farewell to Arms, Much Ado About Nothing, God's Country, Macbeth, Jungle Book, His Dark Materials, 1984, Don Quixote, Autobiography of a Yogi, Slaughterhouse 5, A Walk in the Woods |