Project Statement: Stains
The drawings in the series Stains utilize unconventional drawing materials with connotations related to experiences growing up in the rural South. Connecting the poetics of materiality with the tactile memory of place, the works combine a fragile rice paper substrate with materials including red clay, mulberries, indigo, tobacco juice and soot. The material emphasis is intended as a meditation on the exploitative agricultural and industrial history of the region, which also has generated a unique cultural expression and resilience. Ultimately this series is a meditation on my own bittersweet relationship to place through the cash crops of and material references of the places I’ve lived.
The drawings in the series Stains utilize unconventional drawing materials with connotations related to experiences growing up in the rural South. Connecting the poetics of materiality with the tactile memory of place, the works combine a fragile rice paper substrate with materials including red clay, mulberries, indigo, tobacco juice and soot. The material emphasis is intended as a meditation on the exploitative agricultural and industrial history of the region, which also has generated a unique cultural expression and resilience. Ultimately this series is a meditation on my own bittersweet relationship to place through the cash crops of and material references of the places I’ve lived.