Scry – Mixed Media Photography on Wood

Scry by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media collage on wood from The Feminine Gaze series. I created this piece using my own photography shot during the March 3, 2026 full moon at Château Saint-Pierre de Mejans in France. Other elements include acrylic paint and medium. 

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Description

The Original

Scry by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media collage on wood from The Female Gaze Series. I created this piece using my own photography shot during the March 3, 2026 full moon at Château Saint-Pierre de Mejans in France. Other elements include acrylic paint and medium. 

The piece measures 23×36″ (w/h) and is mounted on wood. 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 Scry by Robin Rivers

Through The Female Gaze series, I explore cultural memory by reconstructing medieval patriarchal iconography through a feminine lens. Each piece transforms my contemporary photography—often combined with archival materials—into complex narratives that place women in positions of power. By layering the medieval stained glass form with photography shot across various locations in France, I create temporal dialogues that reframe the cultural narrative of women in history.
 
In this piece, I photographed the full moon reflecting in a thousand-year-old stone pool at an ancient Knights Templar commandery. I transformed this lunar imagery into a meditative portal that reframes Templar mysteries through a feminine lens, inviting viewers into a contemplative journey across time. Arranged in a chess board pattern, the work echoes the sacred geometry of medieval cathedral windows.

Sources

  • Original photography from Robin Rivers shot on March 3 and 4, 2026 at Château Saint-Pierre de Mejans (Puyvert, France)
  • Artist materials:
    • Acrylic paint,  acrylic matte medium

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 her 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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