Blank Canvas, 2024
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Exhibited at Artprize 2024, Artprize Clubhouse
Recipient of the Artist Seed Grant
I have spent the entirety of this year incubating in my family's Ann Arbor home. After graduating from college on the East Coast last spring, I moved back to the Midwest where I would live with my parents for the first time since high school. More than anything in this process, I was nervous to see what artistic inspiration I would find from my new/old surroundings. What ended up being the focal point of my creations this year was actually the exterior of my family's house. Its stucco makeup and sprawling space between its windows peaked my ambitious interest in pursuing large scale installations. Starting in August, I exhibited a number of textile pieces and projects on the side of the corner-located home for my immediate community to enjoy. Multiple local news networks wrote pieces about these showcases and for the first time in my town, I felt widely celebrated as an artist. Now that the year is coming to a close, I am hatching out of my shell and letting my incubation dissipate with my inevitable return to New York this fall. To commemorate my departure from the building that brought me such comfort and exposure this year, I have crocheted a pictorial of the house in the center of a stretched, crocheted-canvas plane. The material used for this section was created from scratch. As a composition, this piece represents a blank canvas not only through its material, but also through its focus on the overwhelming potential I felt upon returning home.
