About Swoon Art House
A residence/art studio for artist, Rebecca DiDomenico.
A transformative art space where expansive art pieces/installations are imagined and created.
The residence is part of The Swoon/BMoCA International Artists Residency, a collaborative that provides international artists with the residence/studio space, resources, time, and freedom to realize expansive works of their imagination. The residency fosters the growth of emerging and established artists by encouraging them to take risks, experiment, and explore their creativity. Selection of artists by invitation only.
The new residence/studio will foster Rebecca’s vision of elevating the community’s cultural involvement, which have been a focus and passion for her personally and through her family’s foundation, the Compton Foundation. These areas include supporting non-profits committed to the environment, reproductive rights, peace and security, with an emphasis on the powerful way that the arts can further the mission and impact of these fields of interest.
Rebecca’s fervent wish is that the presence of Swoon in the North Boulder Art District (Nobo) will encourage other artists to create out-of-the-box ground breaking sustainable residence/studios, as a way to improve the cultural fabric of and thus create expansive experiences for our city.
Viewing of artwork by appointment only. Email: info@swoonarthouse.com
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A sustainable rammed earth building exclusively run with geothermal and solar energy designed by Rebecca DiDomenico collaborating with architect and builder Mike Moore from tres birds workshop.
This building is intended to be an icon in a new generation of urban sustainable residences, using local materials with a focus on renewable resources. Ingredients include rammed earth, concrete, steel, glass and wood from recycled train car sides. The internal open architecture is in keeping with a design philosophy allowing space to encourage creative manifestations of living, such as needed for residence, studio and entertaining for the benefit of the arts and non-profit organizations.
Landscaping was designed in collaboration with Karla Dakin of K.Dakin Design and executed by Brian Carlson of Green Landscape Company.
Fence and gate designed by Rebecca and fabricated by Mark Castator and Rob Hinde of Iron Artisan Ltd.
Fountain feature by Brian Pulst of Spa Water Specialists Inc.
Swoon:
To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy, a state of ecstasy or rapture.
Used online as an action, to show that someone is attracted or interested in someone or something.
to be overwhelmed with spirit,
to feel the rush and to run over with it, like a cup runs over,
to collapse, to keel over, to die to the old, to let go of preconceived notions,
to feel giddy, lightheaded or dizzy with the fullness of all the senses,
to faint, to go out like a light, to lose consciousness
and then to pass into a new consciousness,
to syncope, to let one’s heart reinvent itself,
to experience a deliquium, a melting or dissolution in the air, a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium,
the change of a physical awareness toward a spiritual awakening.
from Old German swogen, “to sigh”,
not in resignation but with renewed insight