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Animal Homes Inspire L.C. Bates Museum Exhibit
From now until October 15, the L.C. Bates Museum will host "Animal Homes," an exhibit that explores Maine contemporary artists' interpretations of where animals live: bird nests, hives, beaver lodges, trout streams, ground hog holes, ponds, bat caves or trees, logs with insects, or tide pools with all their variety. The artists' work varies in medium from oils to pastels and installations. The artists have provided statements about their work. Bob Brooks says of his depiction of a wasp nest, "I remember watching a wasp nest built from scratch from the very first moment of construction. It was on my studio window of all places so I had a day to day ringside seat. This nest was in Montville, Maine." Abbott Meader of Oakland states that his painting "Trout Hideout?" derives from an on-site drawing done "below Mrs. Kidder's" on Martin Stream in Larone. "It's a spot I fly-fish each spring. Sometimes the trout are there and sometimes they are not — hence the question mark in the title." Artist Alison Hildreth says there is an actual scientific fact behind her drawing of the spider in her nest, "Spider and Wasp." In the picture, she says, the background drawing is the web that the spider weaves for herself. Overlaying that is a white drawing of a nest that she is programmed to weave after being stung by a parasite wasp. When the spider completes the new nest, that is suitable for the wasp, she dies from the venom and the wasp lays her egg in that sad structure. Please contact the L.C. Bates Museum at Good Will-Hinckley | ||
