Juliette Goodwin

Work samples

Hybridplume

Atomic cloud merges with flower – "Hybridplume" from the Nuclear Life series
Lunar Cloud

"Lunar Cloud" on a sea of indigo blue from the Nuclear Life series
Black Eyed Susan

"BES 10" from the Black Eyed Susans project
Red Cloud

"Red Clouds" from the Nuclear Life series

About Juliette

Baltimore County

My work explores the duality of destruction and beauty through the imagery of mushroom clouds and flowers. The mushroom clouds represent the devastating power of nuclear weapons and the destructive nature of humanity, while the flowers symbolize the resilience and growth that can emerge from even the darkest of circumstances. The sky and moon serve as a reminder of the vastness and majesty of the natural world, and the delicate balance between humanity and the environment. Through these… more

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Nuclear Life

The Nuclear Life paintings explore the duality of destruction and beauty through the imagery of mushroom clouds and flowers.

Lunar Cloud

"Lunar Cloud" on a sea of indigo blue from the Nuclear Life series
Petal Cloud
Red Cloud

"Red Clouds" from the Nuclear Life series
Skirt
Hybridplume

Atomic cloud merges with flower – "Hybridplume" from the Nuclear Life series
Icescream Cloud
Seacloud
Waterpop
Fungicloud
Burger

Black Eyed Susans

The Black Eyed Susans project is a series of paintings and drawings devoted to the early, middle and final life stages of the flower. All parts of the cycle are certainly worth documenting, but the final month of a Black Eyed Susan, when the petals change from lemon and Naples yellow, to ochre, then darken to sienna and even deep violet is especially saturated and worthy.

BES 1
Black Eyed Susan

"BES 10" from the Black Eyed Susans project
BES 3
BES 4
BES 5
BES 2
BES 6
BES 7
BES 8
BES 9

Many Moons

My motivation to interact with the moon is no different than anyone else’s – this glowy, ever-present orb floating in our night sky holds us all, conscious and unconscious. Human rituals surround cyclical lunar appearances and I have created my own ritual in hopes of capturing this unearthly light. It’s difficult to secure in a straight photo, so I make my camera dance -- grabbing a squiggle, a cursive letter or two, or a shape. Iridescent lunar ink burns into the velvety black indigo of a memory card. I think it looks like moonlight.

Embryo Moon
W Moon
Dollar Sign Moon
Vert Moon

"Vert Moon" from the Many Moons series.
Scribble Moon
Magic Marker Moon
Smoky Moon
M Moon
Cursive Moon
Signature Moon

Lunar

Oh the moon.
These paintings, in oil and ink and casein on wooden panels, present captured moments of our glowy moon dancing in the night sky and dancing with multiple versions of itself. With paint.

Embryo Moon
Dancing Moons
Lumpy
Glob
Boomerang
Egg
Finger Moon
Moon Convo 1
Moon Convo 2
Moon Convo 3

The Sky

Regardless of whatever crazy mess is happening in this world, I take great comfort in the fact that I can open my front door and over the abandoned house across the street, the sky continues to show up, every day. We show up for each other. The Sky never disappoints.

The Sky 1
The Sky 2
The Sky 3
The Sky 4
The Sky 5
The Sky 6
The Sky 7
The Sky 8
The Sky 9
The Sky 10

workindow

Work Window is a photo documentary project, and the subject is always the sky outside the work window.

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workwindow 4
workwindow 10
workwindow 1
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workwindow 7
workwindow 2

Camera Morte

My digital camera is possessed. Foreshadows. Aftershadows. Melting, semi-apocalyptic neighborhoods. Aliens. Cats. No image has been altered. Photos appear as taken through Camera Morte.

Neighborhood Apocalypse
Front Porch
Springtime
Stormy Weather
Light Post
Flora
Dripping Ivy
Alien Landscape
Slinkycat Zombie
Handy

Cartographesque

These maps document an expedition of unknown but knowable places. Their discovery happens as they are created. Traditional and unfamiliar techniques are employed to bring these uncharted areas out of the ethers and into our plane of existence.