Process
Works from Maria Greenshields-Ziman’s series Shadows, Leaves and Sub-Aqua. Shadows is inspired by shadows cast as the sun moves across the sky or night shadows seen through a window. Leaves explores how the veins that run across a leaf have definition, integrity, and purpose that speak to the veins of the hand, root systems, systems of communication, and expansive design. Sub-Aqua refers to the things that occur beneath the surface—inspired by small bodies of water that hold within their shallow depths, worlds of activity.
Maria Greenshields-Ziman’s Shadows series – Inspired by shadows cast as the sun moves across the sky or night shadows seen through a window. As if from the inside looking out, these layered works fall over the viewer, capturing the feeling of being completely enveloped by nature, the shadows stretching to touch one another creating a canopy of light and dark.
Works from Maria Greenshields-Ziman’s Lucent Silva and Lighstcapes series explore the light that seeps through forest trees and flora through illuminated light boxes and layering of vellum cut outs, tissue paper, ink, and acrylic.
Works from Maria Greenshields-Ziman’s series FEED and Objects: 1000 Questions and Answers. Initially created during the height of the pandemic, “Objects” was born during a time of circumstantial solitude when Greenshields-Ziman illustrated cherished objects atop pages of a well-worn encyclopedia that she had loved as a child.
Explore the process behind Maria’s work as she creates the piece 10 Freeway. “One of the silver linings to being stuck in traffic on my evening commute is the contemplation of the shapes and silhouettes of the eucalyptus trees that line the freeways of LA,” Maria shares about the work.
A view behind the creation of the latest 2023 series, ‘Lucent Silva’. “Lucent”: Translucent, clear, shining, luminous. “Silva”: The forest trees of a particular area.
Videography by Paul Duran-Lemos
Inspired by shadows cast as the sun moves across the sky or night shadows projected through dark windows by the nocturnal lights of the city. These layered works fall over the viewer, capturing the feeling of being completely enveloped by nature, the shadows stretching to touch one another creating a canopy of light and dark. Created through the collage of found paper, cardboard, and various plants layered in delicate overlapping silhouettes with spray paint and intervened with charcoal.