More about our Artists on View! Take a closer look at these three artists and how they use place and materials to convey personal and collective memory within their works.
Future Forward, crisscross, curated by
@oldleatherutilitybelt .
Gallery hours: Thu-Sun 12-5p
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Through my practice, I consider whatโs passed down and how we value it - from recipes to generational trauma. How do you hold onto a culture through colonization, Partition, and immigration? Where do memories of a lost loved one live on through the body, the environment, and time?
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We witness our environment through the lens of our memories and senses. A reflection in a puddle, the shape of a tree, the texture of a brick wall, all can immediately draw to mind images from the past which then fold into the present moment to create the unique synthesis of past, present, and future which we call experience. Further, an environment carries the memories of its past on its skin, and in its soil. Scars and wrinkles of both the organic passage of time, and the changes we humans have wrought upon a given landscape.
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Primarily using recycled materials has functioned as a symbolic apparatus, to create beauty and purpose out of pain. This directly ties to my upbringing; the joy and pain of being from South Seattle, and the subsequent intentionality to make purpose of, and see beauty in, the forgotten and discarded. I love making work as a part of this community because a legacy of environmental and social activism is embedded within the work of the artists that are from here.
Supported in part by
@kc4culture and
@warholfoundation .
PC: Mark Woods
@markwoodsphoto
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