(little brides) Creatures of Great Hope

This installation was shown at Birdhouse Laboratories in Knoxville, TN in March of 2008 as part of a two person show, Sewn Together. Balance is a precarious moment of potential. Rather than stability, I am interested in exploring the meeting of two oppositional forces, inside and outside, heaviness and lightness, attachment and displacement, protection and entrapment, leaving a sense of ambiguity and uncertainty. I would like to engage the viewer in a visceral way, utilizing imagery and forms from both nature and the body. I relate these forces to emotional counterpoints, hope is a moment where fear and desire meet, and memory is an undefined yet familiar feeling. I depict and utilize forms that are themselves moments of transition: orifices, folds and seams. Similarly, journey and narrative take place in a nonlinear manner, cycling backwards and forwards, inward to outward and outward to inward. This cycle continues in a poetic way, shifting between the deeply introspective and personal and expanding to universal and collective. details from (little brides) Creatures of Great Hope dimensions variable intaglio on cotton, tulle, cast cement, sewing March 2008