Diana Lynn
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gesture
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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.
2003 
An ephemeral art project that took place on public beaches in the cities of Vancouver and Victoria, and on Saltspring Island BC.  Installations were created daily of raked sand or found objects. Every afternoon or evening the work  would be washed away as the tide came in.




recent projects
release
2004-07
2,005  vitrified clay stones, which are being placed on a cobblestone beach in Victoria, BC.  Each stone is numbered. The stones were  exhibited at the
Kelowna Art Gallery 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,
drinking blue-greens
2007-ongoing
Installations and information on cyanobacteria 
(blue-green algae) at  St. Mary and Cusheon Lakes, Saltspring Island, BC