Sea Change :Holding COmplexity
A solo exhibition and collaboration with community Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 at Garver Canvas Inside Garver Feed Mill
This period of time marked an election, loss and grief in the Madison community from a shooting in a school, and many other widespread crises.
All photos shown here taken by The Blue Umbrella
Sea Change is defined as a marked change : transformation
How do we develop capacity and understanding during times of massive change within ourselves, our communities and systems we’re living under?
Or:
How do we create light in the darkness?
Much of the research for artwork begins with curiosity and asking deeper questions.
Instead of providing definitive answers to these questions, this exhibition seeks to create space to hold:
multitudes of context and meaning
spectrums of being
cycles of change
differences as a conduit for greater understanding
communities/ ecosystems as integral components of life
visions of collective future
Artworks from different series utilize visual metaphors and language of puns to connect a myriad of internal and external topics. The series “Into the Deep” follows the cycle of a figure as they fall into the depths of the ocean, while gaining insight and psychological depth. The series “Bodies of Water” - a figurative interpretation - depicts human silhouettes housing different water ecosystems. “Rules of Engagement” asks viewers to flip the script, taking on the unseen work that neurodiverse people have to decode in order to respond in social situations. Several other hand-built structures, including a zine library, serve as portals ( or portholes) for connection- inviting participation to activate the work.
May you: find glimmers of light here, create your own light, coalesce and agitate together to create glowing tides that will light our way through a myriad of changes.