Faceted: Time and Expectations

Faceted: Time and Expectations

This body of work investigates time, memory, and female experience through both materiality and composition. All of these artworks began before covid and quarantine, and were then gradually constructed over 2020. As the unprecedented year progressed, the artist’s initial perspectives shifted, and the artworks and their voice’s evolved through the process.

Merging photography, textiles, paint, and collage together, these mixed media artworks are bricolages, consisting of many different types of repurposed and reused materials. They begin as photographs that the artist took from her day to day life with her Nikon D7000 camera. She then digitally edited them, printed them onto fabric, and deconstructed their compositions and content, through multiple processes and mediums. Some steps were rendered with intuitive mark making, while others, were very intentional. 

These artworks have distinct voices, but were constructed alongside each other, and are different visual investigations, into the same three conceptual themes.

These are: The discrete influence that culture can have on life decisions and aspirations; the relationship between place and time, and how it lends itself to metaphor; and the internal infrastructure of the mind, and how it mirrors the creative practice of bricolage.

Balancing simplicity with complexity, recognizability with confusion, and the visual weight of the separate materials, these artworks are perceptually challenging and defy easy categorization. They are faceted, many sided artworks, that ask to be interpreted, and encourage the viewer to shift perspectives.