Flesh Is Earth
MICA Gateway Gallery, 2017
Work shown with a short book of three poems:
Artist Statement
Earth is the beginning and end of all life; earth is flesh and Flesh is Earth. To be human is to be of earth. Clay is a material of spaces that seem to be both endless and momentary; it is rock weathered down over thousands of years by water and wind to become something malleable, a manipulatable material we can touch and feel and understand. Clay is physical evidence of time, what was before, what is now and what is to come. I’m drawn, pulled by a physical need in my body to these places and this material. What is it to experience the world as a physical body?
It is the coarse wind and warm sun on my skin, the strength of my grip, the blood pulsing in my veins. It’s the traces of hands on hips, the warmth of rum in my belly, a droplet of cold rain settling on my lip. Take pleasure in your own physicality.
I’m inspired by these embodied experiences, and of intimacy, of wind and hands on my skin. These works are evidence of memory caught and remembered in the flesh.
Show documentation by Rayne Photography