About
This work is about the time taken to make a single line. The inability to rush through the process. It is about the smell of the wood as it burns and the texture of the lines as they form. It is about trying to control that which is so very difficult to control through patience and feeling what is happening under my fingertips. It is a meditation on line and flow.
Using an ancient technique typically associated with “masculine” hand-crafts and easily recognizable imagery, and repurposing it through abstraction and the influences of “traditionally feminine” things such as braided hair and weaving, I am creating something entirely new.
Each piece invites the viewer inside, like a portal, and asks you to spend some time there and see how it feels. In a world designed to pull our attention continuously in different directions, all at the same time, these pieces are moments of stillness and reflection. No matter what you see or feel when interacting with my work, I hope to present a meditative moment where there is always something new to see.
A brief interlude.
I made some major life changes. I moved to Oregon from Southern California. I got married! I bought a house, a house with a studio…
I also made some personal, creative, life decisions. Looking back at the work I have created and sold over the past few years I’m incredibly proud. I grew from someone experimenting with a new medium, to someone who could see how much more I can achieve. I love making smaller work, affordable work, work that lives in people’s homes. But, I finally realized I had been constraining myself. My creativity, my imagination, my joy, my everything was being crammed into far too small a space. Too small a period of time, since after all, half of what my work is about is time. Why?! Why was I being so stingy with myself? I couldn’t answer that question beyond, “because I almost got complacent”. Almost! I decided to stop. Hard stop. Really. I booked a trip to Venice, Italy, and took a two-week intensive class that can only be referred to as life-changing. I drew a line in the sand and decided that everything beyond that line, everything that I create in the future will be made to push and test my boundaries. I hope that those who have followed me and supported me with such incredible love, stick with me. Big things are afoot, but like most big things they take time. Time to create, to become, to fail, and to succeed. I will be sharing as much as I can as I go, so please follow along. If you do choose to stay tuned, I don’t plan to let you down. It won’t be quick, but I do believe it will be worth it.
-Alexis