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      • Castro Elementary Pollinator Garden
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Libby Barbee
  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Collages
      • American Wet Dream
      • Strange Birds
      • Reimagining Bierstadt: Among the Sierra Nevadas
      • Reimagining Bierstadt: Landers Peak
      • Children of the Mountain
      • The Storm in the Skies
      • A Forcefully Reproachful Protest
      • Vulcan's Tantrum
      • Reimagining Bierstadt: Rocky Mountains
      • The Big Freeze
      • Black Magic
      • Red Twins
      • Incidental Interference
      • Eastern Medicine
      • The Harvest of Particles
      • It's All Made of Minerals
      • Constructed Mountainscapes
      • Collapse
      • From the Myth to the Land
      • I-70 Eastern Colorado
    • Print based work
      • The Commutation of Distances
      • Taming This Most Unruly Nature
      • Clint
      • Astral America
      • Trophies For the Foolhardy
    • Sculptures and Installations
      • Your Sky is My Sky/My Sky is Your Sky
      • Dirt
      • America Divided
      • The Sound Mirror Project
      • Speaking Across the Divide
      • In Search of the Myth
      • Hope Springs Eternal
      • Synthetic Symbiosis
        • Synthetic Symbiosis
      • Dwindle
    • Drawings
    • Public and Corporate Artwork
      • Castro Elementary Pollinator Garden
      • Riverdale Animal Shelter
      • In Anticipation of that Which Has Come Before
      • Shapeshifters
  • Bio
  • Contact
  • Curatorial Projects
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Portfolio > Sculptures and Installations

Your Sky is My Sky/My Sky is Your Sky
Your Sky is My Sky/My Sky is Your Sky
Your Sky is My Sky/My Sky is Your Sky
Dirt
Dirt
Dirt
America Divided
America Divided
America Divided
The Sound Mirror Project
The Sound Mirror Project
The Sound Mirror Project
Speaking Across the Divide
Speaking Across the Divide
Speaking Across the Divide
In Search of the Myth
In Search of the Myth
In Search of the Myth
Hope Springs Eternal
Hope Springs Eternal
Hope Springs Eternal
Synthetic Symbiosis
Synthetic Symbiosis
Synthetic Symbiosis
Dwindle
Dwindle, a 22’ high wall installation consisting of 45 ink and layered cut paper panels accompanied by a shelf holding a set of binoculars and a series of guidebooks to North American wildlife, explores the relationship between population rates of indigenous species and varying levels of human activity.  Utilizing as a point of departure the California Floristic Province, one of North America’s three biodiversity hotspots, the piece explores the tenuous relationship between humans and the natural world that we inhabit. Various species can be seen within each panel’s three overlapping layers only by looking through small geometric holes that have been cut from each paper layer.  Starting at the highest row with the scarcest indigenous species and the fewest geometric windows and gradually e
Dwindle
© LIBBY BARBEE
Website by OtherPeoplesPixels