It Was Always You, Mixed-media Photography

The Original

It Was Always You by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed-media photography on wood panel from the Star Crossed Lovers Series. I created this piece using my original, non-digitally altered photography and acrylic mediums. 

The piece measures 15×17″. Shipping will be calculated based on location.  Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors.  The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.

The Inspiration for It Was Always You by Robin Rivers

Through the Star Crossed Lovers series, I explore how colour and light shape the way a single element of an image is interpreted. Each piece in the series includes photography element of lily pads taken at the same location under the same conditions. Matched with my colourful botanical photography, it results in a new image that draws out different colours, shapes, and flickers of light depending on the flower.

The Artist

Robin Rivers is a multidisciplinary storyteller. She explores cultural memory keeping and technologies of circulation—how stories and images travel between people and across generations. Her practice folds writing and original photography into my mixed-media collage process. She examines how documented archives and personal interpretation shape our shared understanding of the past and how preservation itself is shaped by power, privilege, and historical upheaval. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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