Artist Member
My Mother’s Garden
When she died, I was left with her garden. In a wish to preserve and conserve, I photographed the flowers and the color as they changed thru the season. I cut into triangles, folded and sewed into what became hexagons. My hope was to create a fully immersive experience as one walked thru what became a paper garden.
My Mother’s Garden, detail
Empyrean
This is a project that began during the Covid lockdown, where amidst all of the fear and anxiety the only certainty was the sky. I captured her daily as she accompanied me on my daily walks. An ever-constant with only the clouds passing thru. What began as a simple book structure, expanded and grew. I cut, folded and sewed the parts and pieces. The process was repetitive, mindful, mindless and meditative. The result was the sky abstracted.
The Red Dress
With poppies as my muse and creative inspiration, I began exploring new and different means of paper sculpting. This time, the resultant form was the first in a series of paper dresses. It’s an experiment, and definitely in process as I learn and grow.
Marcie Scudder 
www.marciescudder.com
@marciescudder on Instagram
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Years ago, I became fascinated by the creative possibilities in artist books. Only recently have I fully embraced the opportunity to explore. With my background in architecture, and a love of photography, I’ve now found a way to marry the two by re-imagining the structure of the book at a much larger scale, using it to shape the experience of space. I’m self-taught, loving and learning this new form of expression.
BIO
I am a lens-based visual artist exploring the connection between the human experience and the ephemeral circles of nature’s seasons. Grounded in the present moment, my work explores the dualities of fragility and loss, rebirth and renewal. My art is about the conversations between generations, about our stories and how we pass them on. It’s about memory; how we remember, what we remember, and who.
After decades of raising a family and living in the suburban life, I now live in the mountains of rural Vermont where time has its own way of slowly passing.
My camera is only one tool in my creative toolbox. For me, the photograph is a portal into the possibility of my own adventure. From this starting point, I allow my mind and my hands to wander without needing to know. I make art because I can, and because I am. It’s how I learn, how I connect, how I feel.
Currently, I am in pursuit of my Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Maine Media.