2022 CFLT Fresh from the Farm Guide
A South Sound Food and Farm Resource Guide
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2022 Fresh from the Farm Guide Cover Art
'Ancestor Garden' by Lisa Kattenbraker
Lisa Kattenbraker-Batik Artist
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Artist Bio: I am an artist living and working in Olympia for the last 15 years. For over 25 years I have been creating batiks using locally harvested beeswax, fiber reactive and natural dyes on cotton fabric. The narrative batiks are expressions of experiences from my own life, while the imagery, patterns, symbols, and faceless stick figures invite the viewer to bring their own stories into each creation with the hopes of sparking conversation and connection. The past few years I have worked with a focus on connecting with ancestors and the ways communities grow together. I travel the country exhibiting my work, and when home can be found in the studio and garden.
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More from the Artist...
“We are searching for ourselves in each other”
(Sergei Parajanov)
Working with the medium of batik, I create emotive visual stories, drawing from the traditional process of batiking patterns and combining those patterns with more contemporary images -figures that are usually faceless- allowing the viewer to bring his or her own emotional moment to the experience.
Art has always been about connection and communication in my life~ we live within our internal worlds where thoughts, emotions, experiences, sounds, and stories all blend together by way of their own unique recipe. I bring these images out of my own self with the hopes that they make some sense on the outside, and with the larger hope that they spark a familiarity in someone else as well. The figures in my pieces are black stick figures- they are a combination of all the colors in the piece and in the color spectrum- as an inclusive way of portraying humans in general, and without facial features I present them as an invitation and a challenge for us all to see ourselves in one another. The pieces/stories/scenes are there as a backdrop to any person’s life. Our experiences, thoughts, and feelings connect us in a way that extends beyond our physicality. The pieces I create are momentary versions of my experience of happiness, sorrow, excitement, confusion, comfort, loneliness, love, and a myriad of things combined together in nostalgic memory. When a piece resonates with someone because of the colors, patterns, or movement, and ignites an emotional response, that is the deeper connection that I am striving for. I use different patterns and symbols which hold meaning as a way to continue the non-verbal communication. When I put these things into cloth, I am changing the fabric with story, I am both exclaiming and asking: Do you recognize this in yourself? And when the answer is yes, we feel so much less alone. Because after all, we are all just walking each other home. (Ram Dass)
Some pieces also serve to raise awareness and funds for specific causes.
Lisa Telling Kattenbraker
www.lisauntitled.com
Instagram: @lisauntitled
(Sergei Parajanov)
Working with the medium of batik, I create emotive visual stories, drawing from the traditional process of batiking patterns and combining those patterns with more contemporary images -figures that are usually faceless- allowing the viewer to bring his or her own emotional moment to the experience.
Art has always been about connection and communication in my life~ we live within our internal worlds where thoughts, emotions, experiences, sounds, and stories all blend together by way of their own unique recipe. I bring these images out of my own self with the hopes that they make some sense on the outside, and with the larger hope that they spark a familiarity in someone else as well. The figures in my pieces are black stick figures- they are a combination of all the colors in the piece and in the color spectrum- as an inclusive way of portraying humans in general, and without facial features I present them as an invitation and a challenge for us all to see ourselves in one another. The pieces/stories/scenes are there as a backdrop to any person’s life. Our experiences, thoughts, and feelings connect us in a way that extends beyond our physicality. The pieces I create are momentary versions of my experience of happiness, sorrow, excitement, confusion, comfort, loneliness, love, and a myriad of things combined together in nostalgic memory. When a piece resonates with someone because of the colors, patterns, or movement, and ignites an emotional response, that is the deeper connection that I am striving for. I use different patterns and symbols which hold meaning as a way to continue the non-verbal communication. When I put these things into cloth, I am changing the fabric with story, I am both exclaiming and asking: Do you recognize this in yourself? And when the answer is yes, we feel so much less alone. Because after all, we are all just walking each other home. (Ram Dass)
Some pieces also serve to raise awareness and funds for specific causes.
Lisa Telling Kattenbraker
www.lisauntitled.com
Instagram: @lisauntitled
2022 CFLT Google Farm & Market Map
Map Legend
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GREEN FARMS:
Have Farms Stands
RED FARMS:
all other farms
PURPLE MARKETS: Farmers Markets
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GREEN FARMS:
Have Farms Stands
RED FARMS:
all other farms
PURPLE MARKETS: Farmers Markets
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