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Storybird Studio ~ Oklahoma
(Milissa Burkart)
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| Storybird Studio: "Milissa Burkart began her art career working in pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache. Her exposure to antiquarian books and artists'books in her job as a library paraprofessional, and having seen the original works of Joseph Cornell, she began to incorporate her 2-dimensional works into miniature 3-dimensional constructions." |
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A Bird in the Hand but Nothing for the Soul
By Milissa Burkart
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Storybird Studio, 2007. One-of-a-Kind.
85.5 x 4.5 x 4" closed. Covered wire. Stained glass. Gouache on binders board with found objects. Composed of two pieces: box with peephole on top; drawer that pulls out to unfold the 'story.'
Milissa Burkart: "The Bird in the Hand piece is, very generally speaking, about unrequited love."
While "unrequited love" might suggest gloom, this tableau of sadness and silent melancholy is paradoxically a joy of discovery. A peephole begins the fun: turn and tilt the box to catch glimpses of what the shadows obscure; pull the drawer slowly, tilt it forward - a bird in the hand; remove the drawer completely, open the triptych structure and behold Eros(?) almost offstage, hidden by barren tress in a parched landscape, separated from potentially vivifying rain. This is a romantic relishing each nuance of hurt.
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| Unity Series: Phasing: Out of the Abstract and into the Real |
By Milissa Burkart
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Storybird Studio. One-of-a-Kind.
9.5 x 4.25 x .75". Sculpture. Acrylic Gouache on binders board with wood beads.
Milissa Burkart: "I am spellbound by the Universe - its systems and
processes, and the lives of Beings within it. Each subject, like a massive planetary body, captures me for a time in its orbit, and I watch it attentively and learn as much about it as I can. With this new knowledge comes a deepening reverence for the beauty and complexity of the World, which I try to incorporate into my constructions. My miniature structures are portable, interactive, and intimate - a blending of imagery, kinetics, and narrative - with the intention that they be touched and handled. I hope that you will see them as I do - peepholes into our immense Universe.
"The Phasing piece was just for fun, incorporating my fascination with planetary systems and the like."
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Matter of Time
By Milissa Burkart
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Storybird Studio, 2010. One-of-a-Kind.
4 x 5.75 x 5" slotted and lidded box with 5 books (one for each slot). Each book: 4.75 x 2.5"; 8 pages; text digitally printing. Vinyl gouache on binder’s board.
Matter of Time is the artist's physical rendering of scholar and philosopher J. T. Fraser's 5 levels of time: Atemporality, Prototemporality, Eotemporality, Biotemporality, and Nootemporality.
Milissa Burkart: "Matter of Time is based on a prototype I submitted as a final project for an honors Cosmology class I sat in on — fellow classmates gave oral presentations, but I chose to do a visual/interactive piece. The class was team taught by a philosopher, the campus chaplain, an anthropologist, and a physicist. "
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quercus
By Milissa Burkart
Tulsa, Oklahoma: Storybird Studio. One-of-a-Kind.
4.25 x 3.25 x 1"; game board with acorn cap playing pieces. Four squares of the checkered game board pull out in accordion fashion with one end attached to the board. On one side of the accordion is a drawing of an oak with its common name, scientific name, and brief description; on the other side are identifying factors such as leaf, wood, bark, and acorn descriptions. Housed in bark-like box with cotton ribbon enclosure.
Milissa Burkart: "By nature, I am an inquisitive person, but one with a terrible memory. Memory aids for non-scientists is a series of works created to help me remember key facts about a variety of subjects that interest me.
"Quercus (a genus of trees and shrubs more commonly known as oaks) is one of these aids. Hidden underneath each of the acorn caps is a brief list of characteristics describing four of the 28 species of oak native to Oklahoma; the caps can be moved around like checkers on a checker board."
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