Drop-in Painting Workshop with Pearl C. Hsiung

Join artist Pearl C. Hsiung to create a collaborative painting inspired by the patterns of ocotillo and cholla branches. We will be using oak gall ink, a substance derived from the galls growing on oak trees used in manuscripts and paintings since ancient times. On your way to or from the workshop, be sure to see Hsiung’s sculpture Holocene Screen, installed in the area east of the paved parking lot between the Mall and the US Post Office. It was originally made for the first Candlewood Arts Festival in 2019, and returns to Borrego Springs for the first time since its debut. The sculpture explores how we understand the terms natural, artificial, and cultural and the ways this framing impacts our actions.

This work will be on view through April 2024.