Thornwood, Mixed Media Photography

The Original

Thornwood by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Albertine Series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold. 

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The Inspiration for Thornwood by Robin Rivers

Through the Albertine series, Robin explores how memory and time fragment, reconstructing themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original. Thornwood combines a pair of images shot in the small village of Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardene region of France and on the grounds of Château d’Orquevaux. This piece combines the château boathouse with images of the thorny fields in a wintery, dreamlike combination that depicts Albertine’s world, a place Henri cannot go. Thornwood explores the separation and longing of two people when outside forces keep them apart.

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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