Something glimpsed through a parting in the clouds...︎︎︎ BFA thesis 2022 /// (ceramic, sand, video projection, audio)
…and again I saw, through a parting in the clouds, something like a tunnel, opening briefly before being misted over by another passing mass. With each glimpse of this unknowable thing a body begins to soften at the edges, flickering in and out of a worldly sense. And this dissolution of form gives birth to a new realm.”
Something Glimpsed Through a Parting in the Clouds is a body of work formed around an initial desire to both explore and further develop a sense of spirituality that is more aligned with my values, sense of self, and way of moving in the world; a spirituality which relies on and works in tandem with my art practice.
Considering diasporic connections to culture and spirituality on both a personal and a general scale led me to center ideas of physical displacement and destabilization through the creation of an in-between realm, de-centering connections to land as a locus of spirituality.
With this work I sought to place tactility and material involvement as a more tangible spiritual practice which then culminates in a representation of this ambiguous spiritual realm and a collection of ritual objects.
