Diana Lynn
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2000-2006
An environmental/interactive/insertion art project. Thousands of shaped and engraved pieces of shell  were given to 140 participants, who placed these shells on beaches, rivers and waterways around the world for others to find.







recent projects
release
2004-07
2,005  vitrified clay stones,  placed on a cobblestone beach in Victoria, BC.  Each stone was numbered.
The stones were  exhibited at the
Kelowna Art Gallery
in the exhibition
2nd Nature in 2005.
lacunae for the burrowing pine mouse
song of the blue-eyed thrush
2005
Ephemeral installation made in a grove of pines,  Woodside, California.
2005
Semi-permanent installation in two California Live Oak trees. Djerassi Ranch, Woodside California
2005
Soft green cotton cord looped through the branches of
an old moss-covered Red Cedar tree in the Great Bear Rainforest in Northwestern British Columbia. To be featured in the series
Landscape as Muse.
raincatcher
flower circles
In  the tradition of flower carpets, (infiorata and alfombres de flores) rangoli, and kolams  around the world, these flower circles are done with a community spirit in celebration and in hope.
lens
2007
4000 blue marbles placed on a secluded beach.
The high summer tides rearranged the marbles each day and these changes were documented for five days
then returned to over the following year.
drinking blue-greens
2007-ongoing
Installations and information on cyanobacteria 
(blue-green algae) at  St. Mary and Cusheon Lakes, Saltspring Island, BC
2007
A group show of installations using recycled and salvaged materials. Each of the ten artists in the show found their own solutions to the problem of over-used, broken and  discarded  things.
being here
salvaged
2008
An installation of  local shells, stones
and hand-made porcelain at the
Point Gallery, Saltspring Island.
An intimate show about making things,
loving things, and being on the island.