Autumn Summary (8) is presented as part of the Natural Rituals Exhibit at Lansing Street Gallery. This work is an 8.5 x 7 inch framed work on paper using sumi ink, walnut ink, concentrated watercolor, water-soluble colour pencil and graphite on 500g Somerset paper.

Autumn Summary (8) is one of five small drawings from Autumn Summary, a series produced in 2017 after a residency at the Blunk House, Inverness, CA. The base layers of each drawing were made using wild plants as drawing tools and abstract forms were inspired both by the natural environment where I live in Elk, CA and the artwork of JB Blunk and architectural characteristics of his handmade home. The work was originally presented at Blunk Estate following the residency.

The Natural Rituals exhibition brings together artwork from three Mendocino County-based artists whose studio practices are each deeply rooted in materiality, process, and place. Natural Rituals puts to the fore the tacit, meditative, and often ritualistic cadences that emerge from the body working with materials - an energetic transference that through time and process creates new and mutual forms. Firmly established in Northern California, each artist calls upon those environmental characteristics, combining repetitive mark-making with chance; guided by improvisation and observation while adhering to personal systems of control.

Roberdeau’s works on paper began with the aid of natural phenomena, observed forms, and flora - the rhythms of the wind determining suminagashi ink patternings; coastal wild flowers dipped into watercolor pigment used as drawing tools; and depictions of rock formations, tidal movements, and horizon lines, all act as the grounding foundations for more universal gestures in these meditations on being and place.

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