September 6, 2008 

Arizona artist Elayna Alexandra Flodin has had her work Moonlight Stroll, selected for Night Visions III art show in Flagstaff Arizona. This year’s show, celebrating the beauty and mythology of the night sky will coincide with the 50^th Anniversary of International Dark Skies movement that began in Flagstaff in 1958.

 Flodin, who recently moved to Arizona, previously showed her work Celebration of Artists in Peoria and, Celebrating the Art of the West presented at West Valley Art Museum and was on of 39 artists selected out of 1600 for the show Embracing our Differences, in Sarasota FL. It was part of project of Coexistence, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization which offers classroom curriculum and educational seminars for school-aged children with an emphasis on diversity. After twenty-two surgeries on her left leg for her disability Pseuedarthrosis, she is familiar with being different.

Her work, Nuclear Dark, a combination of layered x-rays, photography and hand painted pieces made into a digital print is part of Driven an award winning show sponsored by VSA arts, which débuted at the Smithsonian in 2007 that is now on tour around the USA until 2010. 

Moonlight Stroll works with similar elements as Flodin’s other prominent work; she has combined an x-ray of her deformed leg with photography that depicts the glow of the moon. This is just the beginning of a new series that Flodin has applied for a grant to fund. The project will focus on unveiling the mystery and magic of the moon’s eight phases, incorporating and uncovering disability, and what lies hidden to great digital prints that will each be hand finished, something Flodin has not done before.

The show Night Visions III will have an opening reception on September 27^th as art of the Festival of Science Celebration and will stay on show until November 6^th. Night Visions is a partnership between the Flagstaff Dark Skis Coalition, Northern Arizona University’s Program in Community and Culture and the Environment, and the Flagstaff Cultural Partners.

 For additional information or to interview Flodin, contact her at 623-734-5202 or go to www.elaynaalexandra.com.

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