Navy Veteran Who Lost Home in Camp Fire Makes Art With Remnants of HometowO

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — From ashes to art. A Navy seasoned who mislaid her location successful the municipality of Paradise during the Camp Fire wildfire has recovered a beauteous mode to header with the tragedy: She’s taken remnants of her hometown and transformed them into art.

November 8 marks 3 years since the Camp Fire destroyed Brittney Abel’s Paradise home. The Navy seasoned grew up successful Paradise and says the occurrence turned her beingness upside down: “It’s not conscionable your home. It was besides my hometown. I grew up there.”

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Once Abel returned to Paradise, she wanted to sphere immoderate remnants she could find of her home. She started gathering everything from her crystal postulation that survived the occurrence to pieces of bark — and she transformed them into beauteous works of art. Brittney starts with a blank canvas, adds non-toxic resin and ink, and past the treasures she forages among what’s near of Paradise.

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As much California’s suffer their location to wildfires each year, Brittney’s connection to them is to find thing that tin propulsion them through, the mode her creation did for her. She says, “You person to emergence from the ashes, oregon you’re going to get buried successful them.”

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Brittney is presently showcasing her artwork astatine the Sacramento Arts Festival astatine the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center.

Madisen Keavy