Such as We Are Made Of

            There exists in every human being an innate desire, a need, to declare “I am here,” or at least that they were there. A sort of compression occurs when one is able to recognize that declaration across time and space. Seeing humans as a microcosm of the universe exemplifies the recognition of “like” in all other beings. This exhibit, Such as We Are Made Of, is a musing upon the patterns that repeat and echo back upon themselves throughout the universe. These works aim to connect each viewer to the universal material which they are sewn from and the movement we each take through the four dimensions of space and time.

            Inspired by the idea that we are at the large scale how we are at the small scale, this exhibit echoes William Shakespeare’s claim in Twelfth Night: “For such as we are made of, such we be.” This exhibit is an antiphony, a call and response to those words, a search for what exactly it is that we are made of. 

            Forms from the natural and scientific world are borrowed and abstracted, recognized for a moment and existing for one brief and glorious, illuminated moment. The relationship between the forms creates within each piece its own compression of time and space, drawing on memory, nostalgia, and ultimately empathy, culminating in a realization that the human experience is but a node on the neural pathways of the greater cosmos.