Flower Song

Media: Digital composite: handmade recycled paper with pressed flowers layered with a watercolor of a lily

Statement:
At the start of the pandemic, I moved my paper making practice to my home studio, where, with no beater, I began working with a blender and recycled paper. Here, a piece of that paper, strewn with pressed flowers has been digitally layered with a watercolor of a lily.

Oyster

Media: Digital composite: pulp painted abaca construction atop an abaca wrapped form, atop handmade abaca paper embedded with petals, digitally layered with an image of sand patterns

Statement:
The materials used in this composition include: a sheet of abaca embedded with petals, a flat disk of abaca stretched over a twig armature & a small 3D “bowl” made of abaca scraps. When combined with a photograph of sand patterns it became an expression of the sea.

Night & Day

Media: Left: cotton paper embedded with petals and some discarded resin | Right: handmade abaca embedded with pressed flowers, digitally doubled

Statement:
I often present work as diptychs. Here, two sheets of paper, each embedded with petals are digitally paired to create a study of translucence, the beauty of flowers and organic flow.

Biography

I make a lot of images, some of them are paintings, some are photographs, and some, in a strange way, are both.

Nina Meledandri is a painter, photographer and mixed-media artist. She often uses paintings and handmade papers as raw material in combination with organic material to create digital images

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