SPACE is the medium
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Identify and respect space
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Feel, hear, touch, breathe space
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Create, share and co-build space
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Create objects, sound, words and movement in space
The space in between things, the space around things and the space inside things. Her work lives in the surreal dream world, inner realms where mythologies and tropes are reimagined, representing the constant shifting flux of knowing yet not knowing. She rearranges the dark side of the moon, touches the fire of solar flares, and illuminates eclipsed identities, histories and realities; through the work.
She leans into deconstructing philosophical existential palpitations through a myriad of lenses and a plethora of questions. Reframes comfortable narratives with the nonfiction of lived histories, imagines new worlds through the fiction of hope and somewhere in between it all lives the potential for new ways of living the core of our interconnected truths.
Imagine growing up in a house where every, single thing was a creative act, from how the linen closet was organized, to how the Christmas tree was decorated, music made, the living room painted, to the drawings made at the kitchen table.
That is how she grew up, surrounded by art, immersed in art. That is why she is a multi-disciplinary artist, who is a writer, a visual artist, a performing artist, and a musician. The art making is her and she is the art making. Being an artist is not a special extension of herself but an expression of her full self. It has always been a part of who she is, and what she does.
Amidst the creativity in the home that she grew up in were vigorous talks around the dining room table about injustice and inequity. Growing up in the 1970's, as a child of a German immigrant Mother and an African American Father, living in America, she would find the cultural identity of her family under attack from all sides. Creating became a means of understanding the inescapable confusion, oppression and cruelty she was facing. With urgency, she deconstructs and decolonizes the inherited reality to create pathways to freedom.
Her range of creativity encompasses paintings, drawings, small objects, installations, poetry and art books, music, performance art, playwriting, and creative collaborations. These seemingly disparate and disconnected creative acts are what she brings to her multi-disciplinary practice. Her various bodies of work draw inspiration from: vibrant light and color from nature, global myths and ancient symbolism, nightmares and dreams, ugly truths and beautiful lies, and the global spiritual practices of stillness and healing. It is a disarming and magical evocation to see and unsee the world in order to connect and be at one with the world.
Viewers are invited to sit with the work and enter the various realms of the human story, as seen through her eyes, as she challenges them to authentically see/know/accept themselves in order to dream forward a reality of belonging in shared equity, justice and joy. Where coexistence is not a zero-sum game predicated on imaginary borders, inflated privilege, hate filled mono-stories and invented supremacy.
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