This daily body of work spans from the months of August-December 2020: Creating a piece of art each day after graduating from Vermont College of Fine Art in the middle of the 2020 lockdown as an act of personal and artistic devotion and perseverance of morale, and with a touch of hard honesty—to keep my own sanity after leaving the only community I had access to during the pandemic.
At the end of the calendar year, these pieces were displayed in my backyard, which with the help of some dear friends, was transformed into an outdoor winter gallery space. This provided much needed opportunity for safe art-based connection and community as Buffalo entered the depths of winter.
The original musings and reflections for this series can be contextualized here, with this journal post:
“31 days.
31 portals.
31 spells.
1 month.
1 love letter.
1 seed.
1 bleed.
honoring time
reclaiming time &
expanding time
through alchemy & devotion.”
“this project manifested as an exercise of grounding post- graduation from my mfa program. the first half of this year was brutal & extraordinary. the vacuum of time creates an illusion of space between all of the happenings of the past eight months.
winter residency feels like years ago.
full quarantine feels like years ago.
george floyd & breonna taylor feel like years ago.
curfew & helicopter pulsing nights feel like years ago.
writing my process paper feels like years ago.
my birthday feels like years ago.
my pet bunny dying feels like years ago.
graduating feels like years ago...
& the in the parallel experience of time—things have taken too long, too many days have passed without contact, justice, or strategy and plans. how is it possible to experience the feeling of time moving at the speed of light and painfully dragging a gigantic boulder simultaneously? how can things feel so compressed and expanded within a single unit of measurement?”
Media & Materials include but are not limited to: 4”x 4” canvas, floral remains, mineral deposits, menstrual blood, fruit juice, ash, copper, seeds, florida water, red wine, ink, watercolor, acrylic hue.
