Art is found in the spaces in between --- within our everyday experiences. Words, conversational snippets, smells, sounds, and images -- together they create a layering of sensory information, which is encoded by personal perception and emotion into our memories. Day after day, these create our human experience.
To me, the pursuit of art is a creative discourse in the collective experience of what it is to be human, the one thing that we all share. It is about the importance of keeping this dialogue alive in a time when the mediated culture surrounding us contributes to our increasingly insular lifestyles. Through art, objects, actions, gestures, and spaces can provide fertile ground for our reflections and a place for conversations to exist. It is the possibility for this necessary reciprocity that interests me.
...Visual language that reveals personal content as a metaphor for our shared human experience.
Erin Hewgley