AMELIA FAIS HARNAS CUEVA
  • Wine Stains
    • Merism
    • Drink a Measure Round
    • Experiments
    • nomakeup
    • Drunk Politics
    • Razzle Dazzle
    • Familiarity Series
    • Dinner Party
    • Kindling
    • Damiani Wine Stains
    • Embroidered Wine Stains
  • Other Work
    • Rite Mendica
    • Histology Series
    • Deeply Held
    • Skateboard Art
    • Shrine Calendar
    • Shrine Series
    • Venus and Mercury
    • Sketchbook
  • Bio
  • Statements
  • Contact
Amused Moon | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Ary (For Tommy) | | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Beloved Key | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Buechner's Brush | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Corning | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Doppler Radar | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Duke | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Good Omen | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Lola | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Magician | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Meghan | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Jaffrey | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Paris | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Year One | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Rilke | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Studio Wine Key | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Tufted Titmouse | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Self Portrait | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Vintage Lamb | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot
Portland | 10 x 10" | Pyrography, gouache, pastel, gold ink | red dot

Shrine Series

My mentor’s paintbrush, a woody knob cut from my favorite willow tree, a felted pickle with a face, an amused moon, a lake-smoothed stone set on a gold ring, a baby food jar filled with rings from ex-boyfriends, my sister’s first passport photo, a blue and white bowl of fortune cookie fortunes, a tiny beaker holding a tiny butterfly wing, half of a robin’s blue eggshell, a key, a lock of hair, a wooden snail from my grandfather, an orange plastic paperclip, a postcard, a flattened penny.

These things I carry with me from one home to the next.
But there are other cherished things and places and people that I cannot contain in a shrine on top of a dresser in my bedroom.

My inherited love of Doppler radar, a couchsurfer friend, the gossamer song of a wood thrush, a bumble bee that visited me three mornings in a row, my hometown, the strange coincidence that I have so many run-ins with spiders, good luck, the tingle of a really good poem, my second hometown, my third hometown, my housemate, the taste of a particularly good Côtes du Rhône, etc.

These small illustrations, made from lines burned into wood, gouache, and gold ink, are my offerings – a few of my precious touchstones.
© Amelia Fais Harnas Cueva, 2003 - 2022
  • Wine Stains
    • Merism
    • Drink a Measure Round
    • Experiments
    • nomakeup
    • Drunk Politics
    • Razzle Dazzle
    • Familiarity Series
    • Dinner Party
    • Kindling
    • Damiani Wine Stains
    • Embroidered Wine Stains
  • Other Work
    • Rite Mendica
    • Histology Series
    • Deeply Held
    • Skateboard Art
    • Shrine Calendar
    • Shrine Series
    • Venus and Mercury
    • Sketchbook
  • Bio
  • Statements
  • Contact