https://www.laurabethharris.com/home daily 0.75 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce30eac883b8e00019e90b0/1559258266730-OSGHXQ1AYMH9GA2ZAWQY/Aro%2BHa_0029.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce30eac883b8e00019e90b0/1559258266997-O8BLKTFSZTEW874XPZA5/Aro%2BHa_0507.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce30eac883b8e00019e90b0/1559258266916-GTV1TV9RLVORI7QBQIHL/EmptyName-30.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce30eac883b8e00019e90b0/1559258267329-WWZONV8SJCOWI01JU2TX/ishimoto%2B3.jpg Home https://www.laurabethharris.com/art daily 1.0 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/895fe970-3250-4480-aac2-ed0537fdb36c/pinkportals-light.jpg Art Debris Painting: Rose-colored Portal 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/9b9388d4-40ee-41fc-ac77-25a11998f9c7/pinkportals-medium.jpg Art Debris Painting: Rose-colored Portal 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/c9335491-5265-4bfe-9843-b09b253df6ae/pinkportals-magenta.jpg Art Debris Painting: Rose-colored Portal 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/7fd42db2-64d0-4fcc-826f-8dc05162831a/pinkportals-dullpurple.jpg Art Debris Painting: Rose-colored Portal 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/8cad4d1f-4c47-4005-a771-9d796da9474f/LauraBethHarris_Debris+Painting+Series_Domestic+Portal+1_green.jpg Art Debris Painting: Domestic Portal 1 // I explore recreating a domestic form—a plate—from disparate broken pottery and dish shards I uncovered from a nearby creek. I’m interested in the idea that each object has a history and life cycle, but they are now broken and discarded. I want to redeem the fragments through an imperfectly beautiful assemblage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/e65ad237-413c-4d7c-9f62-7d4500620ffa/LauraBethHarris_Debris+Painting+%232_Things+I+found+in+Rocky+Run+Creek+at+Wawa+Preserve+on+Dec.+31%2C+2023_mixedmedia_300.jpg Art Debris Painting #2: Things I found in Rocky Run Creek on Dec. 31, 2023 /// The last day of last year, alone, I waded in Rocky Run Creek, a dear place I go to collect myself in the free-for-all that my life as a single mom of 3 feels at times. Amongst the gorgeous rocks and shoals and ripples, I find discarded fragments of tile, pottery, wire and glass. They shouldn’t be there, but there’s something beautiful about them. I imagine the history of the items in a home, and the woman who cared for them. I wanted to create something new and rhythmic from the debris—something that I could connect to past, present and future.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/b962a055-1e4d-4d3d-aef7-838001679317/LauraBethHarris_Debris+Painting+Series_Domestic+Portal+2_ice.jpg Art Debris Painting: Domestic Portal 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/c8ca1f69-4388-4ed2-b1ba-062ed41fc54e/Harris_LauraBeth_Debris+Painting+%234_Mirror.jpg Art Debris Painting #4: Mirror /// I live suspended between places, literally Pennsylvania and Tennessee. On walks at either location, I’ve been foraging discarded silvery scraps: glints and bits and rocks and wrappers. There are tire-flatten sheets of tin foil, burnished lids and tubes, metal ribbons, as well as flakey mica minerals. With the fragmentation that I feel at times in this suspension, I assembled reflective shapes into an imperfect yet scintillating abstract mirror. The shards, slices, and organic elements-each with their own history of sorts-catch the light together in a collective oval array. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/2245a658-8621-496f-b766-136ee768a325/LauraBethHarris_Debris+Painting+%231_Things+I+found+in+Rocky+Run+Creek+at+Wawa+Preserve+on+Dec.+31%2C+2023_mixedmedia_350.jpg Art Debris Painting #1: Things I found in Rocky Run Creek on Dec. 31, 2023 /// With rare moments to myself as a single mom of 3, the last day of last year, I spent time boot-wading in my favorite nearby creek. It is a serene place, despite the myriad of chards of old pottery and trash I find littered here and there. I wanted to create something beautiful and bright from the mess as sort of a reflection on how the fragmentation of my life feels at times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/2144185c-acfb-4be6-b92e-3708c88768be/LauraBethHarris_Debris+Painting+Series_Domestic+Portal+4_brown.jpg Art Debris Painting: Domestic Portal 4 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/420f3f32-ffb8-4478-8ce6-08e195d1b20d/LauraBethHarris_Debris+Painting+Series_Domestic+Portal+3_violet.jpg Art Debris Painting: Domestic Portal 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/c9b168a4-6221-4bef-9450-4c065fabc03d/Harris_LauraBeth_Debris+Painting+%233_Things+I+found+at+the+end+of+Mother%E2%80%99s+Day+2024.jpg Art Debris Painting #3: Things I found at the end of Mother’s Day 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/371cc994-c778-44c4-befc-a60547c703a8/092124_FiberArt_Pleated+copy.jpg Art Debris Weaving, Color Study #1 (orange/blue-green) /// found plastics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/12a50f4a-9fbe-4cda-929b-ba6af8df5cce/hexacomb+copy.jpg Art Hexacomb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/af952e7e-1dbf-43f6-8624-bc25bcc12fcf/092124_FiberArt_Weaving+copy.jpg Art Debris Weaving, Color Study #2 (yellow/pink) /// mesh, straps, screen, wire softball leather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/b0bfe9d1-1869-4a30-9f64-ee2fbbcce157/sunprint3-d_noframe.jpg Art Shadow Print 1 /// photosensitive dyes, discarded objects, plant material https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/b9a15d16-d0a2-4d1b-beba-f40944c2adce/sunprint1_noframe.jpg Art Shadow Print 2 /// photosensitive dyes, discarded objects, plant material https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/f73d756f-c4b5-447c-9b0d-70d3eb9e3c88/sunprint2_noframe.jpg Art Shadow Print 3 /// photosensitive dyes, discarded objects, plant material https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/3827ed29-a432-4d2e-81dd-2c747302ddf3/sunprint4_noframe.jpg Art Shadow Print 4 /// photosensitive dyes, discarded objects, plant material https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/cfb7d223-cd9d-4bb9-b24e-5407b3e15874/Harris_LauraBeth_Debris+Series_Light+Litter+2.jpg Art Shadow Print 5 /// photosensitive dyes, discarded objects, plant material https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/371aed3d-c250-41be-997d-a4669f904410/dreams_art.jpg Art I had a dream where I wasn’t myself, but I was me. /// I collected the sleeping dreams of people in the downtown Jackson community. Approaching people I didn’t know, I asked folks to share a memorable dream with me. It was a terrifying process, but when folks were willing to open up to me, I felt humbled to hold space for their vulnerability and trust. There are collective threads of deep fear, faith, fields, floating and flying, what it means to feel safe, symbols of destruction, intimacy, memory, lots of water references and, well, dinosaurs. Some of the tellings are humorous, some dark and some read like poetry. I decided to type the dreams on my typewriter as a tactile act of care with what was shared with me. A visual that often causes me to pause is cast light and shadow—so ethereal, beautiful, intangible, fleeting. Over the years, I’ve taken and collected little iphone pics of these moments when I come upon them in my house. I layered the prints of light and shadow with the dream words and assembled everything together in a final piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/4743062e-467a-4c43-a683-d4d4cf43299e/101524_Gastropoda+copy.jpg Art Gastropoda /// cut paper + acrylic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/2521a771-078f-4623-bfce-3bc26a91f86e/020524_MindMappng_v3.gif Art You Can Sense a Different Spirit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/d8165c59-d8a2-47c2-b72b-a5e2829acac6/77933df7e9faf54340aaa2cafba0239d.jpg Art Pixels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/8e93df3e-e725-4770-9068-c72233ebc8c4/bFeminineLandscape.jpg Art Landscapes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/d87114b0-a376-47ec-a629-edf777f0c06c/aTimepieceContainer.jpg Art Timepiece Container https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/fbcaa0ac-20b4-4a36-b42f-c79aaccfbbd2/FossilSeriesII.jpg Art Fossil Series I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/9838f509-42a3-46a0-b9cb-000791198350/eFossilSeriesI.jpg Art Fossil Series II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6061f05983ad627947cbd43c/998ec383-b5ee-4d3e-92be-329ff1027df2/3-circle+art-B+copy.jpg Art Point Breeze Linework Series /// 1) Lines someone scratched in the paint of my car 2) Alley weeds 3) Tangled powerlines