“Dynamic Vision” is themed around compassionate human connection. It explores levels of intimacy and alienation within key relationships, and endeavors to open a broader conversation about understanding the human experience, by developing spirit into form. This collection represents alliance, reverence, and advocacy for indigenous teachings as they have informed my life. In honor of the Ho-Chunk and Menominee Nations, whose ancestral lands I am privileged to reside upon, I give thanks. Lessons from my own heritage, and stories generously shared from others’ informed my vision for this culminating student experience. A matriarchal upbringing taught me comfort in uncertainty, a theme that led my vision to create intuitively without defining end results. Even so, I could distinctly see how relation teaches tremendous lessons, and wished to expand that understanding through craft, method, and fire. My values are blended from European heritage, North American indigenous, and pan-cultural traditions as taught by elders and mentors who my family was closely involved with. In sitting with these ideas and gaining insight from my community, the forms before you took shape. My inspiration comes directly and indirectly from the depth of connection created with individuals I interviewed, mentors, and intersection of cultures. My method is collaborative and process-based, it aims to bring form to spirit. Each sculpture is an intuitive reflection of particular dialogues and emotions, intricacies, certainty and uncertainty within and around relationships. Abstract forms represent personalities, stories, connections, and discoveries. The pieces between create movement, embodying new perspectives which relationships catalyze, while the inner and outer surfaces convey feelings between and within all of us.
“Dynamic Vision” is themed around compassionate human connection. It explores levels of intimacy and alienation within key relationships, and endeavors to open a broader conversation about understanding the human experience, by developing spirit into form.
ReplyDeleteThis collection represents alliance, reverence, and advocacy for indigenous teachings as they have informed my life. In honor of the Ho-Chunk and Menominee Nations, whose ancestral lands I am privileged to reside upon, I give thanks. Lessons from my own heritage, and stories generously shared from others’ informed my vision for this culminating student experience.
A matriarchal upbringing taught me comfort in uncertainty, a theme that led my vision to create intuitively without defining end results. Even so, I could distinctly see how relation teaches tremendous lessons, and wished to expand that understanding through craft, method, and fire. My values are blended from European heritage, North American indigenous, and pan-cultural traditions as taught by elders and mentors who my family was closely involved with. In sitting with these ideas and gaining insight from my community, the forms before you took shape.
My inspiration comes directly and indirectly from the depth of connection created with individuals I interviewed, mentors, and intersection of cultures. My method is collaborative and process-based, it aims to bring form to spirit. Each sculpture is an intuitive reflection of particular dialogues and emotions, intricacies, certainty and uncertainty within and around relationships. Abstract forms represent personalities, stories, connections, and discoveries. The pieces between create movement, embodying new perspectives which relationships catalyze, while the inner and outer surfaces convey feelings between and within all of us.