: : fractured & found : :
October 1, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Brookline Arts Center, Beacon Street Gallery
1351 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
WWYR, best photo picks, october 2022
Boston Globe, the ticket, october 28, 2022
featured in Lenscratch, december 21, 2022
press release : : checklist
Photographic images inside found wooden drawers.
Structures towering and teetering, leaning, and standing.
Photographs that are pieced and fragmented, faded, and yellowed. Fractured self-portraits surrounded by containers of abandoned voids.
Fractured & Found makes connections between interior being and being on display, creating emotional divisiveness while in demand by conflicting forces. Searching for balance between selfhood, motherhood, working, and rest, feeling overwhelmed and exhausted by compartmentalizing and forcing a fit into each role.
Through the juxtaposition of isolated compartments of broken moments and emptiness there appears to be room for breath, for rest, or perhaps they are intervals yet to be filled. The absence of image hints further at a disjointed existence.
Incorporating found materials helps me feel grounded in what’s real and what exists outside of my head. The drawers symbolize not just boxes I’m trying to fit into, but also spaces that were once private, now revealed and put on display. Much of my work grows out of the battle between yearning for one thing but doing another. Embedding the images into encaustic is like sealing time in a bottle, making it quiet and still, like secrets hidden beneath folded cotton.
2021 - 2023
