Island of Reality #2, 1986

Wendy Franklund Miller
(American, born 1943)

Location: Edwin Markham Elementary School, Pasco

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Artist Wendy Franklund Miller cast Island of Reality #2 from dyed paper pulp. It is part of her body of work responding to her experience of insomnia. She notes, "As I moved more into my own thoughts and inner visions I began to focus beyond my own consciousness. My own insomniac frenzy ran parallel to the anxiety, frustration and confusion more generally felt from the enormous amount of input we all receive each day."

We do not currently have a digitized image of this artwork.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Pasco School District.

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.