my practice is everchanging
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my practice is everchanging ♡
My current studio practice… (where, what, and why)
Where?: Currently, my studio practice is everchanging in its location. Most times if I am working on an art piece on paper, canvas, or other it exists in the KSE building. Other times it exists within me as I exist out in the world which is more active when I am dreaming, ideating, and writing.
Entering my final semester of graduate school the questions of WHAT and WHY are constantly surrounding me and I realize the more I try to expand my answer to be elaborate the answer always returns to constant truths (in my life).
WHAT: My current studio practice is one of storytelling. One of honoring and acknowledging. One of dealing with the hard realities of these truths and outcomes. One of attempting to change the past. It has taken me time to know that the history within me and within those I come from deserves to be acknowledged for what it is but also given the freedom to be imagined differently.
Why?: My artist practice is reliant on my family’s history, my history, and the history of my ancestors that I don’t know (unknown because of issues such as the lack of understanding that our histories ARE enough to even be recorded). This past weekend I was able to engage with my mother in conversation about her history, where it overlaps with my lived experience, and how my artwork ties back into this overlapping of identities. Following this now as it is still so fresh, I am realizing that a component of the“Why?” is to document and to solidify that WE exist(ed) and that these lived moments/memories, some hard and some easy, truly have happened.