Montana van Duijn is a Maine based artist who interacts with her world through performance, video, and natural landscapes. Her work is based around finding her spirituality through the connection she can find through body based contact to the natural world. This is often shown through video based pieces, and installations.

During her time at Fish Factory van Duijn focused more on her illustration based skills, creating a set of “Divinity cards” that act as a way to visually showcase her beliefs, and what she holds dear to her in this life. The cards are a means of processing, sharing, and connecting to her spirituality through a visually based set of “rules”. As well as the Divinity cards, van Duijn created a sound based “album”.

Through old voice memos, voice messages, and collecting sounds from Iceland, she created a soundscape that moves you through the emotions surrounding her breakup with her long term partner, the death of her grandmother and best friend, and the anger that comes from the societies she lives in today. Van Duijn’s skill set for creating music is completely intuitive, and based minimally on practical skill.

Van Duijn found a solace experimenting within this art form, though, and the mountains and waters of Iceland sang through to make way for the album to be created. The final products of van Duijn’s time at Fish Factory were a cohesive album made into a cassette tape, and a full 12 piece deck of Divinity cards.

Website: https://www.montanadorte.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/montanart22/