With social media, it’s easy to keep track of what you’ve done this past year. Looking back through memories, it’s plain to see that a lot can happen in just 365 days. One Lewes artist took a more old school approach - chronicling her life in a year’s worth of drawings.
Barbara Warden drew a year’s worth of pictures, and then some, for her exhibit 365: Elements in Time.
The showing, which opened this weekend at the Biggs Museum in Dover, focuses on elements in the world that Warden felt worthy of expressing.
“I had decided at the beginning of 2015 that I was going to do a drawing a day. Sometimes I did more than one. Sometimes I had to play catchup, but essentially, as it evened out, I did do a drawing a day," Warden said.
She worked with pencil, crayons and even sewing thread. Her drawings are mostly on paper, but she used leather for a few pieces.
Warden said stone, rain, wind, smoke, bone and other elements are represented in her show, which actually features over 400 drawings.
The museum will show 365 pieces at a time, rotating drawings through the exhibition, which runs through the end of July.
This piece is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.