Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Artwork copyright Wendy Franklund Miller. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.

Hindsight #7, 1993

Wendy Franklund Miller
(American, born 1943)

Location: Yakima Valley College, Yakima, WA 98902

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Hindsight #7 is part of a series of seven mixed-media paintings by artist Wendy Franklund Miller. The imagery is based on road signs and is meant to symbolize the choices we make on our life's journey. Discussing her use of these symbols, the artist states: "Instead of giving us information and telling us what to do, I use them to invoke feelings of looking back and understanding more clearly the whole of one's choices."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Yakima Valley Community College.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Spokane-based artist Wendy Franklund Miller creates art using a variety of materials and techniques, including artist-made papers, encaustic paintings (made using melted wax), printmaking, and ink drawings. Her artworks explore a visual language of forms and symbols and is "mostly focused on discarded objects with all their implications for our civilization."
Franklund Miller was born in North Dakota and raised in Yakima, Central Washington. After art school and college, she settled in Spokane, Eastern Washington, where she has lived and worked since 1976.