Vicki Lee Johnston "Ford Fur"

So this "Ford Fur”piece is the result of a hike into the woods - where I came across an impossibly located rusty antique car.

It was . . . how could it get there? 

And, What I saw was the Running Board under the doors and I just knew I needed that piece, I wasn’t sure what for - it was one of those 

artist-things where you just have a strong intuitive that : “that’s important, I should have it. I’m not sure what I’m gonna do with it it, but I gotta get it." So I somehow got it off the old rusty car. It was heavy and awkward and made the long trek back to my car to get it home and into my studio. 

Ultimately the "Ford Fur" piece is that Running Board from that old antique car and lots of little, tiny cut pieces of reclaimed barbed wire

As you know - Barbed Wire was the tiny jagged line in space that broke up the great vast, wide-open of the American West.   

And, my vision for this piece was that it is the combination of a vehicle colliding with an animal, which was validated when the Hadron Collider came out — whenever it was.

That is a huge colossal scientific machine that puts different atomic entities, atomic particles, and forces them together at a high speed so they smash with great force, and they combine to become one atomic entity. 

And that’s what “Ford Fur” is - it’s a visual culmination of a motor vehicle colliding with an animal that results in a hairy, metallic thing :

part car, part animal. 

Also “Ford Fur” looks to me like an elk - the animal - specifically the elk's neck.

I am privileged to have elk walk past my studio window now and then, and elk have long skinny, hairy necks, so I  see an elk neck 

in that piece.  And that’s the great thing about Abstract Art -  is It can be different things at different times for every viewer. 

And that’s my statement about FF

I hope you like it, and thank you.