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


Projects

Phantom Limb
These obscure lives
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

2024.
These infinitely obscure lives


This is an archive of the ephemeral. It is 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 acutely right now; with a gust of wind everything changes.


Tenderness towards existence | 44" x 44" | Pastel, graphite, dirt Between two mirrors | 27.5" x 39" | Pastel on Paper

Like many thousands | 48 x 48 | Pastel, dirt, graphite on paper What remained | 48 x 48 | Pastel, dirt, graphite, pigment 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 11.5" | Pastel, flashe, earth Local Color | 9.5" x 12" | Pastel, flashe, ink on paper A thing more than it was | 9.5" x 12" | Pastel on paper Could become something 1 | 9" x 12" | Pastel, pencil on paper Could become something 2 | 9" x 12" | Pastel, pencil, pigment on paper In both ways at once | 9" x 12" | Pastel, flashe, on vellum A brief crack of light | 12" x 18" | Pastel on board