Song in the Bone: Sound Lost and Found

Over the past year drawing has been a discovery process of dynamic beings. Through my limited human perception and touch, considering what it is like to live as air or water, or as land is a fool’s errand. The breaks and bonds of molecules and forces of thermodynamics might not be perceived or memorialized by a brain, and I have no desire to anthropomorphize or patronize the winds or oceans with human definitions of consciousness. Yet our own cells and neurons move and metabolize under the same laws of physics. We are just a slower version of air, desperately attached to a form. Would a body of air experience these boundaries? Is it connected to everything? Is air a series of hyper-rapid attachments and losses?

Percussive Forest, 2024, graphite on paper, 210” x 110”

These questions along with the immediate contact and idiosyncratic movement (my earth bound hand trying to keep up with the air) of drawing have begun a series of works related to connection and loss across imagined spaces and forms. They may be held, by rhythms or patterns, choreography or the connective tissue that is sound. There are few solid forms, though most of them hold a story I can hardly bear to tell.

The exhibit will be up by appointment through May 31. Please DM @sarahvaleriart or email at weightofwordsforming@gmail for an appointment.

May 31 from 12-6, closing open house event.