Exhibition Details:

This solo exhibition is the visual storybook of my life stories until age 30. The pieces are capsules for and representations of my personal experiences. There are 23 pieces of small and large scale works, varying between contained and semi-contained weaving, quilts, mixed media with fiber and with 3-4 interactive and touchable works. Artworks will be displayed hanging on the walls, hanging from the ceiling, and sitting on pedestals. In the background of the gallery a curated soundtrack of music from the eras of my stories will be playing to set the mood and create a more immersive experience. I am creating work around the following story titles; the title of the artworks and the stories are the same, as they are both parts of the piece.

Take a Moment*

Creative Tender Spirit

Take up Space Little Korinney

Dance Your Heart Out

Friendship Bracelets

Drop It Like It's Hot

Stay young, kid. Compete! With yourself.

The Graveyard of My Love

Per.Per.Per.fection

Panic! At the diner. Please bury me here.

Way Down in a Hole

It’s a hard time being this naive.

Oh, mother (mother fucker)*

At the Bottom of a Small Town Pint Glass

Think Again, Buddy

Burnt From Both Ends

I hope you can forgive me so you’re not carrying my choices with you forever; they were never about you

I check all the boxes and still don’t feel like I belong

Tending to Myself

Full Body Yes

Family Ties

Community Ties*

Feel Your Feelings

Big Desires

*signifies interactive artwork

The exhibition will be unified through textile materials, material unions, and big color and texture. Additionally, next to every piece will be displayed the story the artwork encapsulates (handwritten) and a typed visual analysis of how materials and design choices in the artwork reflect the story itself. This exhibition will showcase my new mode of working with intentionally embedded stories and highlight the range of my skills with various mediums. This proposed work is blooming from me in live time as a response to cognitively arriving to and developing these ideas over the last year. Way Down in a Hole has already been created and was displayed at LAC as a part of the 2023 February mental health exhibition.

Artworks Take a Moment, Oh, Mother, and Community Ties are interactive pieces. Take a Moment hangs from the ceiling and creates a private space within the gallery where the viewer/user can take a moment to check back in with themselves, take a breath, take a selfie… whatever they need. Oh, Mother is a quilt and it will be displayed on a quilt rack next to an heirloom rocking chair. The viewer can wrap or cover themselves with the quilt as they sit and rock. Community Ties is an interactive weaving that allows the viewer to make 3 actions (knots, weaving in a new fiber, connecting strings, etc) on the piece so that it will morph and assemble with each passing viewer until the closing of the show. Each interactive work will have clear directions with a sign that declares INTERACTIVE to the viewer displayed next to the piece.