Description:
Halftime Show: Sanctuary
In this exhibition I was playing with the idea of bringing sacred space into the gallery context. My personal spiritual practice in recent years has revolved around the natural world and my place in it. Creating time and physical spaces for ritual in my life, especially that connect me to my surroundings, has helped me ground myself.
The cyanotypes in this space use digital and direct materials to reference transformation, fractalization, and cycles of growth. The tree stump featured in the center of the twin tapestries is a rubbing of a tree cut down less than half a mile from the gallery. In my first three years as a student at Oberlin, I walked past this tree probably thousands of times, only to one day walk past the same spot and realize that it was gone. This collection of work is a meditation on time and material, on a macro and micro timescale.
The natural elements of this altar setting were gathered on the day of the exhibition, on a walk with my grandmother and two of my closest friends from my time at Oberlin.
Medium:
Altar Table: maple and ash wood, paired with red oak tarot box, found natural materials, and elements from my own altar.
Wall hangings: Cyanotype and poplar rods
Variable woodblock prints on paper, framed with cherry wood
Year
2022
Location
The Fisher Gallery
Oberlin, Ohio
Beaux Watwood 