This is a fairy tale: an overly optimistic fantasy about human adaptation in the face of sea-level rise. It will be exhibited in the summer of 2013 at the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center in Hayward, CA.
"Madalines' Stilts" was created by a three-generation collaboration of grandmother-mother-daughter artists. They all share the name "Madaline."
Lynn (Madaline Carol) Tomlinson is an interdisciplinary artist working in animation, sculpture, and mixed media arts. Her award-winning animated and documentary films have been screened at numerous festivals, and her clay-on-glass animated shorts have aired on children’s public television, MTV and Sesame Street.
Lucy Madaline Saper is a sixth-grade student in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a visual artist, actress, and stilt-walker.
Madaline Borrebach Tomlinson is an interdisciplinary artist known for her face-painting at the Santa Cruz farmers market. She is also an attorney, and a founding member of a ukelele group in Santa Cruz, CA.
Music "Waltz" by Maia Vidal, from her album "God is my Bike." maiavidal.com