Description: Danielle Fontaine is a photo-encaustic artist and pictorial memoirist in Greenville, SC. #yeahthatgreenville
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Danielle Fon taine Artist
My encaustic work considers the enduring question of what we elect to keep or preserve and the reasons why; and invites reflection on what, or whom, we discard along the way.
Still Time on Pye Pond, my original series, is based on photographs taken on a family farm in South Georgia, where an odd collection of potentially fixable or reusable items await their fate in a randomly ordered fashion. I find much poetry, at once beautiful and sad, in their uncertain future. It is this conflicted beauty, this southern family portrait, which I seek to recreate in my studio.