Featured artworks: Blue in Motion
IN THE STUDIO
Marilyn McRae’s featured works—Ebb and Flow, Blue Depths and Ranges—highlight her signature layering techniques, where recycled magazine pages are folded, burned or torn to create richly textured compositions. Each piece reveals a balance between control and chance, transforming discarded materials into intricate visual landscapes.
Ebb and Flow, detail, is a meditation on movement and pause—on the cyclical nature of change, like tides guided perfectly by unseen forces. It invites the viewer to linger in that in-between space where the ocean exhales and time seems to stretch, soften and begin again.
A study in Layering
Each layer is deliberately constructed, yet its boundaries resist precision—some burned to a fragile crisp, others ripped open with raw immediacy. As these layers accumulate, they create a shifting topography. The result is a landscape that feels both eroded and formed, as if shaped by opposing forces.
Blue Depths, detail, with its charred contours, deepens the sense of dimension when layered.
Ranges, detail, is a study of torn edges that expose the magazine paper’s fibers, soft and irregular, revealing the material’s inherent vulnerability.