When dreaming up this installation, I knew finding that balance of approachable and provocative would be a challenge. I wanted to invite people into a physical form of my mental process in a way that gently mirrored the depth of conceptual play and the frustration it often brings. Deliberate in scale and placement, these hanging loosely guide visitors toward the final artworks on display, encouraging personal reflection and shared thoughts on life’s uncertainties along the way.
By surrounding each visitor with these oversized sketches, my goal was to illustrate how emotion, inspiration, and discipline converge, the vulnerability of my process abstracted through endless layers of raw marks and materials selected for their texture, structure, and opacity. These substrates include a naturally tones paper crafted from 100% wild-harvested gampi, a sheer cotton blend featuring inverted sublimation prints of composition studies, and a 100% cotton voile hand-dyed with black walnut ink derived from fallen hulls collected from home, each mimicking a specific nuance or challenge in the development of my work.
Not shown in this reel: Hours at the computer and in the space mapping out sizes and placement, procuring materials, cutting and sanding lots and lots of wood, multiple prototypes, measuring out and installing hardware throughout the ceiling weeks prior to the install, crushing walnut hulls into ink and dye, burning more charcoal, editing and preflighting artwork scans for the printed sheers, all the days and nights spent executing the final plan with my devoted little team <3
There’s still time to visit! I hope you’ll stop in and take a stroll through the nearly 2,000 sq ft installation ☺️ Free to attend, open Wed-Sun 10-5 at
@resurrection_avl until the end of January.
If you’ve been already, I’d love to learn about your experience in the comments!
Paper from
@hiromipaper
Black sheer panels printed by
@splash.works
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