The arts and humanities are important because they encourage us to find our deeper selves and expand important conversations about life beyond the marketplace. The Creative Process is a wonderful place to connect with others on a path of exploration and expression through the arts.
What was the inspiration for your creative work?
“Even the Poles Move” is an ongoing body of work that explores the emotional and spiritual reactions to change through the physics of magnetism. The title references how something as seemingly stable as Earth’s magnetic North and South poles have radically changed positions over time. I use a visual language of duality (light/dark, static/moving, geometric/organic, peaceful/chaotic) to reflect the continuum of possible responses to our changing social, environmental, and political climates.
Inspired by Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s series of photographs created from paintings he made to explore photographic abstraction, my compositions are created through the manipulation of watercolors, Berg photo toners, physical objects, and ferric fluid with magnets. The process creates a “liquid-life” that is highly unstable. As the liquids move, colors, shapes and textures transform in a continuous loop of change.
Undertaken with intention, but equally affected by serendipity, making and photographing the liquid structures have become a meditation on impermanence through these acts of manipulating materials and creating compositions that will disappear. I hope to gain insight into how I feel about the seemingly radical transformation of human ethics and norms.
