Harold Arts
If I were to receive residency to Harold Arts my art practice would gain a lot from it. I would have enough time to complete a finished project and the space would help immensely.
If given the space, I would love to work with fibers and create a large work of art. I am really interested in the internal organs of humans and the implications and memories they hold form person to person. When creating internal organs out of fibrous material, they become somewhat ambiguous and much more relatable to the viewer. These works take something inaccessible and repulsive and make it desirable. It makes you want to touch it, and then hearing it’s a human organ, you kind of feel strange touching it.
Specifically, my project will be a large installation that disrupts the space and allows for interaction with the viewers. I want to mimic the human red blood cells to create a basis of the structure. This would be made up of many little half orbs that will be crocheted. They will then all be connected to each other to create a solid structure. After this is created, I will begin to make some more loose replicas of the veins and arteries. This will be created by crocheting single lines and having them branch out over and around the blood cells. I would like to make the pieces look as gross as I can.
I would like to incorporate some kind of a jelly substance to make it a little more disturbing.
From here I would start to create some organ-like crocheted pieces. I would create the heart and possibly lungs. These pieces would be life-size. They will hang from the blood cells structure. They will hang to match the various heights of where a human’s heart or lungs actually are on different humans. Therefore, there will be multiple copies of the organs to allow for a range of people to relate to the height.
I would like the hearts and lungs to look as though they are floating in mid air. Like, the viewer has been removed and they are only able to see their heart or lungs.
This would be a big project for me and I want to take it on. I would appreciate the help of the Harold Arts Center and a spot in your residence spaces would be perfect for my growth as an artist. I’ve only recently become interested in fibers, but I feel it is a promising area of study and a large project with adequate time and space would be the push I need to get me going in that direction and to be more experimental in my process and more successful in the long run.
Please let me stay here, it would be an honor. Thank you.
