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Object + Field embodies the practice of Cecil Howell. The studio is equal parts Art, Design, and Research. 


Projects

Survey of Shadow
A Still Life
A Biography of a River
Cartographies of Time
Water as Cake
Pinehurst Farm
Adrift
Summer Folly
Shape of Time
Tech Campus
Stardust
Seed Dispersal
Under the Weather
To Pin a Cloud
The Lost Flora
To Catch a Color

Journal


Resume
Mark

2023.
Survey of Shadow


This is an archive of the ephemeral. A series of drawings, primarily in pastel on paper, of the ground.

Each drawing begins with a memory of the ground in mind, but moves away from a particular place/time as the composition and emotion of the drawing unfolds. In this way they are part diagram and part dream, part map and part memory. The series highlights the accumulation of subtle compositions that make our days, but also speak to the fragility I feel, we all feel, so accutely right now; with a gust of wind everything changes.


Between two mirrors | 27.5" x 39" | Pastel on Paper



His days are as grass | 27.5 x 39.25" | Pastel, flashe, on paper Creatures of this kind | 24" x 18" | Pastel on Paper A thing more than it was | 18.5” x 27” Never settled | 18" x 25" | Pastel on board Sometimes the thread is broken | 12" x 9.5" | Pastel on paper a footnote so small it could fall off the page | 9.5" x 12" | Pastel, flashe, earth Local Color | 9.5" x 12.5" | Pastel, flashe, ink on paper A thing more than it was | 9.5" x 12.5" | Pastel on paper Could become something 1 | 9.5" x 12.5" | Pastel, pencil on paper Could become something 2 | 9.5" x 12.5" | Pastel, pencil, pigment on paper Could become something 3 | 9.5" x 12.5" | Pastel on paper Could become something 4 | 9.5" x 12.5" | Pastel, graphite, soil on paper In both ways at once | 9" x 12" | Pastel, flashe, on vellum Everything could 1 | 11.75 x 15.75 | Pastel, dirt, ink on paper Everything could 2 | 11.75 x 15.75 | Pastel, dirt, ink on paper A brief crack of light | 12" x 18" | Pastel on board
Like many thousands | 48 x 48 | Pastel, dirt, graphite, charcoal on paper