Submitted by Honey Salon
This fall Honey Salon is proud to present “Sound the Alarm,” a new collection of multimedia art works by Bellingham artist and entrepreneur Rebecca Ogden. Layering her longtime fascination for the abandoned Georgia Pacific site with more personal and current concerns regarding her own health, Ogden brings forward a brand new collection that weighs the concepts of immediate gratification versus long-term expense. “Sound The Alarm” opens October 2nd during the Downtown Bellingham Art Walk from 6-10PM. Seasonal cocktails, cupcakes and musical musings by local spin-master PhDJ complete this introspective and moving collection debut.
“Sound the Alarm” includes Ogden’s photographic images on vellum, stitched and layered with text from her own lab work. Once the symbol of a healthy economy at the heart of Bellingham, the empty buildings of GP (and countless other sites like it) and haunted spaces left behind by industrial workers, now represent lost livelihoods and pollution that must be diagnosed and cleaned up for a better future. The images of “Sound the Alarm” are as nebulous as most environmental problems today; the pieces are ethereal, lonesome, radiant echoes of choices made for immediate subsistence at the expense of long-term health, with no simple remedy in sight. The themes at the former processing plant are mirrored in her very personal disclosure and weave an introspective, soulful and refreshing perspective on a very public discourse.
Rebecca Ogden attended Western Washington University’s Department of Fine Arts and lives in Bellingham with her husband and children. She currently owns and manages the local cocktail bar Redlight. Ogden describes her unique style of layered photography, graphic-play and panting as, “(Sometimes) I see the world as if I were setting up a series of canvases, I crop images in my mind, change the colors of things in my head, go crazy exploring different textures that surround me.” This unique multimedia styling distinguishes Ogden from her artistic peers and offers the audience a new perspective and vantage point from which to view their surroundings.
