6,081 Miles [These Are The Places We Grow Into] - [Yarn Installation]
Spring 2013
ARTIST STATEMENT
6,081 Miles [These Are The Spaces We Grow Into]
My art is a way for me to revisit and investigate accumulated memories, places, and people through process, color, and use of materials. Inspired by the changing landscape of my cross-country move, my current body of work focuses on using nature and line as a way to process, connect, trace, map and sculpt my new environment.
Growth and change is inseparable from our lives and the spaces we live in and move through. Our mind maps out our body but it also maps out all the empty space around us, constantly processing the space as far as our limbs are capable of reaching in any direction. Our minds map of ourselves literally blends into our present environment and anyone or thing in it. The environments we move through everyday are constantly fluctuating. It is so much a part of us; it becomes so familiar to us, I believe it is easy to look without really seeing.
Often I work with contrasting components, such as the area between 2D and 3D space, searching for a balance between the two. Stringing yarn in a space, while in a sense is drawing, also allows me to sculpt and create three-dimensional forms with only the use of lines. The act of drawing in air makes me aware of my surroundings; the shape of the space we occupy, how one moves through it, and how it changes as we move through the space. The process of constant growth of the web affects how you may have been able to walk through the space on a previous visit. There is also a “hand-made” component to my work. I choose these handmade processes for the imperfections, limits, record and gestures of the human hand. As artist we think of ourselves as makers; our hands have their own brain, their own understanding of the materials we work with.
