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Joelle Cicak - "Our Ladon"

Our Ladon is the memory of a cherry tree from the backyard of my youth. There was a Spring years ago, when it was fully bloomed. It carpeted the ground around it in plush pink, but its vibrant petals were eclipsed by the contrast of a dark form that twisted through its branches. A massive eastern rat snake decided to scale its limbs. The enormous snake draped itself among the branches, the long length of it appearing and disappearing in the masses of flowers. It stretched its head toward the sun and in that moment I felt that I was witnessing a myth -- a true myth -- something ancient and important. It was the serpent Ladon, the yard was the garden of the Hesperides, flipped to an eternal dawn instead of dusk. I watched it, stunned into silence. Its shining black scales glinted against the velvety softness of the cherry blossoms. Its sinuous neck wavered back and forth among the plumage of the tree.

Art of the State 2022: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado
  1. alpert+kahn - "the capacity of illumination"
  2. Judy Anderson - "The Sound of Trees"
  3. Julie Anderson - "Refugee"
  4. Finn Baker - "Where Stories Repeat Themselves"
  5. Tree Bernstein - "Once in a Blue Moon"
  6. Tonia Bonnell - "Unfolding (Blue)"
  7. Scottie Burgess - "Loaded Logo"
  8. Michael Campbell - "Wild Earth"
  9. Al Canner - "Octopod"
  10. Taiko Chandler - "Shades of Grey #1"
  11. Joelle Cicak - "Our Ladon"
  12. Neil Corman - "Balconies"
  13. William Day - "TOGETHERNESS"
  14. Terry Decker - "GARDEN OF THE GODS"
  15. Chris DeKnikker - "Reunion"
  16. Irene Delka McCray - "All This Time"
  17. Chapin Dimond - "Gold Mountain Ring (CDr310-ss/18kry)" and "CDr511-MG-18krySleeve"
  18. Thinh Dinh - "Yellow Clouds & Green Skies V.1"
  19. James Dixon - "Phone"
  20. Nathan Dominik - "Growing"
  21. Nancy Eastman - "Desert Storm"
  22. Melissa Furness - "Every cloud has a silver lining"
  23. Gayle Gerson - "Golden Hour"
  24. Jody Guralnick - "hydnum imbricatum"
  25. Jane Guthridge - "Dancing Color 16"
  26. Wendi Harford - "Melon Drop"
  27. Karen Haynes - "Drifting In and Out"
  28. Deborah Jang - "We're not in Kansas anymore"
  29. Marston A. Jaquis - "Hints & Allegations"
  30. Erick Johnson - "Snowflake Feather"
  31. Junomatico (Kristina Davies and Charlo Garcia Walterbach) - "Soul Play"
  32. Susan Kane - "Fruita Grain Elevator"
  33. Margaret Kasahara - "Notation 33-20" and "Notation 12-21" and "Notation 22-21"
  34. Gayla Lemke - "Oh Monday, Monday, how could you leaveā€¦.?"
  35. Nancy Lovendahl - "Culture 1.0"
  36. Mark Lunning - "Yes, the World is round"
  37. James Makely - "Cuff 13"
  38. Terry Maker - "Living and Breathing"
  39. Raj Manickam - "Juniper's Last Gasp"
  40. Joseph Manuel - "3 Angles"
  41. Betsy Margolius - "Riverfront II"
  42. Tom Mazzullo - "Two-part Invention No. 18"
  43. Sarah McCormick - "withinland"
  44. Chuck McCoy - "Form One Configured"
  45. Amy Metier - "By The Waters"
  46. Grace Morris - "Sobering Effects"
  47. Meredith Nemirov - "RIVERS FEED THE TREES #463"
  48. Al Orahood - "Limon 3"
  49. Tony Ortega - "La Troca Roja"
  50. Roger Reutimann - "CYBER DROPPINGS"
  51. Eileen Roscina - "Iris"
  52. Craig Rouse - "A Monday Afternoon"
  53. Gregory Santos - "Oopsie"
  54. Heather Schulte - "The Impetus of US" and "Control-Alt-Delete"
  55. Evan Siegel - "Westy"
  56. Brady Smith - "Structures for Coping no. 13"
  57. Robert Smith - "Bulbous saggar vase"
  58. Sharon Strasburg - "Granite Altar 2"
  59. Autumn T. Thomas - "Eccentricity"
  60. Lucas Thomas - "Debris"
  61. Floyd Tunson - "Worker Bee"
  62. David van Buskirk - "Samadhi"
  63. Becky Wareing Steele - "Portal from the series Models for Future Altars"
  64. Christopher Warren - "Plowshares: Altered Colorado"
  65. Pamela Webb - "Grounding Twig Set - Necklace and Earrings"
  66. Mami Yamamoto - "Life With Countless Optimism"