{"id":31950,"date":"2016-02-10T00:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=31950"},"modified":"2016-02-16T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:33:44","slug":"who-do-you-love-bonnie-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/who-do-you-love-bonnie-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Love: Bonnie Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

For February we\u2019re asking Utah artists about a specific piece of art or artist, living or not, local or global, that has sparked their curiosity or influenced their work. We\u2019ll be running some of their responses throughout the month.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonnie Scott lives in Salt Lake City, but her art boxes can be found in collections across the United States and Europe displayed on coffee tables and bookcases, their uses limited only by the owner\u2019s imagination. They are keepsakes you can keep things in.<\/p>\n

Scott constructs her creations from bottom to top, cutting boards, covering the resulting form in book cloth or paper, lining it in something contrasting and finally screwing on an interesting handle. \u201cI deal with lines and angles and small hand tools,\u201d she says. \u201cBox making is just a tiny part of the local art scene. So while I know many artists, I had never thought about what or who inspires the process of making a box. And then . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

She recently accepted a commission from Entrada Institute for a box intended to house a set of five of V. Douglas Snow\u2019s etchings \u2014 artist\u2019s proofs of those contained in Wallace Stegner\u2019s Wilderness Letter<\/em>, a rare Red Butte Garden Press publication;\u00a0a copy of the letter\u00a0is included in the box. The donor, Susan Snow, the late artist\u2019s wife, gave the set in support of Entrada’s $1.2 million capital campaign to build a cultural center in Torrey.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnow\u2019s work,\u201d says Scott, \u201cboth as a professor and a painter was familiar to me, but to try to make a box for a Utah legend truly inspired me to first explore the artist. To plan the box I was going to build, I started with a quick read of Final Light,<\/em> Frank McEntire\u2019s book about Snow, and I decided to make the box large enough to include a copy of it with the etchings. I also listened to a CD of Doug Fabrizio\u2019s interviews with the artist on KUER, and perused another slim volume of Mr. Snow\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began with an image of his color palette, as well as the interesting story of his life, extracted from the \u2018Radio West\u2019 podcasts and Frank\u2019s essay in the book. I had never designed a box meant to reflect an individual, and I quickly discovered this project changed the vocabulary I use: process <\/em>became design, engineering, and quality. Listening <\/em>became consideration and voice.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The box, Scott says, inspired work that reflected the artist: \u201cCeramic and mahogany handle for the lid mimics Cockscomb [a mountain he frequently painted that was visible from his Torrey studio].\u201d She found the ceramic pieces at potter Ben Behunin\u2019s; framer M. Scott Gardner created the underlying mahogany for her handle design.<\/p>\n

The box was covered and lined with colors from Snow\u2019s palette. \u201cIt was an extraordinary experience for me, and he taught me well,\u201d says Bonnie Scott, box maker.<\/p>\n

You can see her work at\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bonjscott<\/a><\/p>\n

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