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“When I first moved
back from Holland
I got really into sea
and aquatic life and
experimenting with
materials that would
make the paper pop,”
she says. “This led to
a strong desire to do
something represen-tative
of the beaches
that I grew up on. I
think of Wrightsville
as bright and bub-bly
and I took a lot
of my color palettes
from driving down
Wrightsville Beach
and seeing the colors
of the houses.”
While “What’s
Beneath Wrightsville
Beach” is solidly
anchored in her home
state, Divoky, who
completed a master’s
in art history in the
Netherlands, has been
personally and profes-sionally
shaped by her
travels and studies.
These experiences and
her extensive back-ground
in historical art
are influential in the
impulse to focus on
geography and sense
of place in many of
her drawings.
She traveled as an undergradu-ate
to Mexico and studied ancient
Central American iconographic
style, an extension of her interest
in Mayan, Aztec and Incan design.
Divoky was drawn to the dichotomy
of this ancient artwork, which relies
simultaneously on flatness and incred-ibly
intricate detail. The influence of
these experiences and her historical
research is evident in the geometry
and graphic quality of Divoky’s com-