http://www.rebeccachernow.com/work daily 1.0 2019-12-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/571920353dc1a0855f7b283d/1461264437353/ Projects https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/57d58d3f1b631b0de88d67be/1416359012721/ Projects - $mall Change: Installation view For three weeks in the Spring of 2013 I bartered, trucked, and traded a hand-minted currency for goods, services, and commodities from a station in the Henry Art Gallery's defunct gift shop. photo credit: Jen Loomis https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/5b0c62cd352f53c0a54921a5/1527097427199/ Projects https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/5e0a33b5654c894ea67860df/1577726901122/ Projects - Detail of installation #Superbloom was a recreation of California poppy field at sunset, designed to replicate the phenomena known as the “superbloom” framed against Instagram color theme https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/546c0279e4b0c4f6bace76e6/1416358560102/3becca__web0004.jpg Projects - Gegenschein Gegenschein (2014) 27' x 17' Aerial view: Activated biochar, chalk, sugar, coffee, tumeric, paprika, cocoa, tea, hibiscus, lichen, purple yam powder, indigo, oregano, cardamom powders. photo credit: Ian Lewis   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/54628b6ce4b0edd3bddcb28a/1415744357467/ Projects - Mountains I Have Seen (2014) This is a 5' x 3' assemblage and landscape "painting" derived completely from imagery gleaned from beer cans, boxes, and cigarette cartons. All alcohol and tobacco was consumed by myself or people I know. This mural is constantly in flux and growing, and is held together with steel pins traditionally used in dissection.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/54628e68e4b08c4a3ae8aa37/1415744923433/L1150493.JPG Projects - Scales (detail) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/54628909e4b0edd3bddca802/1415743275041/ Projects - Mycelium Power Outlet Silicone rubber mold (right) Oyster Mushroom mycelium and coffee grounds (left) I packed an active culture of Pleurotus ostreatus (more commonly known as the oyster mushroom) that had been mixed with coffee grounds into a sterile silicon rubber mold. The mycelium "ran" throughout the grounds and hardened them into the shape of a power outlet. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/54628ad2e4b00403fdde0c0a/1415744039224/ Projects - Composting Confessional (2013) The Composting Confessional is a functioning confession booth and two-seater composting privy. It exterior is fabricated from re-purposed materials, such as pallet wood, old doors, cinder blocks, plastic roofing, and flawed blown glass. The interior is made of salvaged bamboo flooring from as high-end interior decorator's dumpster in South Seattle, and resembles a sauna on the interior. There is a thin wall separating the two halves of the confessional, with a small obscuring glass with holes drilled in it for the users to speak through. It stand eight feet tall, by seven feet wide, and six feet deep. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/541ce6afe4b03f1e88124ff9/1411180208402/3becca__web0004.jpg Projects http://www.rebeccachernow.com/new-index daily 0.75 2018-06-06 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/59b0d240914e6b2482bba991/1494387523252/ Community Engagement - The raw material March 2016: The first step is the collection of colored glass bottles   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/59b0e1ea2278e70e9fa73e06/1474307055822/ Community Engagement - March 1, 2016 This was the state of the site selected for the community garden: a neglected dirt patch overrun with weeds and trash, next to a tree being slowly choked to death by ivy. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/5a00d3b7c83025230c187996/1510003616221/ Community Engagement Building the Little Free Library at Grand Central Art Center. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/5b176bb0562fa70b3acf2397/1528259795934/ Community Engagement http://www.rebeccachernow.com/about daily 0.75 2018-05-28 http://www.rebeccachernow.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-04-19 http://www.rebeccachernow.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2016-11-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/57e8632420099e6ecb838974/1474847567070/ About In combination with my studio practice, I am currently a "creative-in-residence" at a section eight housing community in Santa Ana, CA. This extended residency is sponsored by the Orange County-based organization Community Engagement Together with the residents--many of whom have arrived in California from vastly different corners of the world--we are designing and building community gardens for vegetables, herbs, and native flowers, as well as a permanent, large-scale, outdoor mosaic inspired by the surrounding landscape using recycled glass. This residency is part of my ongoing research into blurring the lines between artist and audience, nature and culture, ecology and economy, life and art. I am no longer interested in whether art can simply represent a utopian vision or inspire positive impact. I want to know if it can be those things.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/541cc8f7e4b050462247344d/t/57e83664414fb52bddd5b8dc/1474840750641/IMG_2225.jpg About My artwork is designed to stimulate inter-connective, eco-logical thinking. It is important to me that what I do not only represents the cyclical patterns and networks of the natural world, but is in active concert with them. What I make is often ephemeral and fabricated from bio-degradable, re-purposed, or re-useable materials. It embodies the leave-no-trace ethic by being able to disappear, and potentially give back to the environment it materializes from, leaving little to no waste in its wake.