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 an artist, photographer, and writer who creates from conversations with ancient ponds and old trees, spirits of place and old ones whose lost stories want to be told. As a mixed-media artist, Rivers works with original photography, museum archives, and storytelling to give form to the old ones who speak to her through dreams, deep listening, and walking the land in ancient places. Her practice weaves together mystical guidance and archival research, creating magical pieces that restore powerful lost connections and stories rising up once again. 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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