The artwork, Standing Under, reflects on my process as an artist creating work. It looks at my process of questioning the world, pulls from the past with my desire to involve the audience, and is propelling me into my future projects with a better understanding of my own work and intentions.
It has helped me pare down to the heart of my work. Read more about the work here.
This most recent artwork, Deeper, explores a personal and very recent new found understanding of myself, the artist. As a maze book it tells my experience without words, merely elements following elements.
Read here for more about this work.
Some recent artwork, Alignment and Built to Grow, will be installed in a collaborative show at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton in the gallery space run by A.P.E. This show, Collective Ground, is an exhibition of works by students in the Senior and Advanced Studio Arts program at Mount Holyoke College.
From the Facebook Event:
Featuring artworks from artists Levi Taylor Booker, Lily Cook, Lauren Ferrara, Abigail Hill, Katie Kelso, Xiangwei Kong, Camila Le, Ricki Lovett, Abby Li, Cora Melcher, Kiwi Song, Samiha Tasnim, Deborah Uller, and Megan Walker, this exhibition brings together fourteen unique visions. These artists employ a vast range of mediums, from installation to photography, painting to performance, in order to explore who they are as makers. The diversity of approach amongst these artists reflect the deeply difficult and polarizing world that form the larger context for this exhibition. However, viewed together, these works begin to forge connections between issues of identity, vulnerability, and ultimately survival.
Collective Ground is at 33 Hawley St., Northampton.
The show is up from November 2nd through November 19th.
Building hours are 12-6, Tuesday – Friday and by appointment.
This confusing work, as some have describe it is just that, confusing. The stop motion animation, Individual Focus (video link here) attempts to look at the larger idea of being self centered. And while it is true that all of us, to a certain extent, have left enough of this trait behind in our childhood to view the world, we still have a some of that characteristic as adults.
The video uses polymer clay to represent individuals and the wire and branches as the foundation upon which we build connections. It follows the path of one such “individual” along a story-like path, encountering (or losing) others, forming connections, and broadening their world. There are many emotions expressed throughout. Such as loss when some of the encountered others vanish or move to the side and seem to melt. Or fear as the individual moves to see more of the world, and the background begins to tear apart.
Read a more comprehensive discussion of this work, here, on the specific page dedicated to Individual Focus.
What is the secret to a happy life?
Many have asked this question in striving for happiness. And there are many, many answers; each as unique to the person who asks as to the person who answers. One thought is to find balance in one’s life. This at least is the answer the artist has come to herself and set out to portray balance in a piece of artwork.
Over time Built to Grow has developed from one idea to the next, always with balance in mind. In its final form, of paper, wire, and light, it grapples with the larger question of natural versus man made.
