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Becoming Undone
Rachael Marne Jones
Jessie Wilber Gallery, May 9-June 30
Becoming Undone refers to the initial state of wonder and panic, before recognition takes its infinite hold and quells any spark of discovery beyond what is already known, recognized and comfortable. This state of being forces one to flounder in suspension, grasping for familiarity while enticing us to settle on possibility. In flux, we are forced to revel in a state of entanglement, meaning is emerging and decaying simultaneously; an acceptance of the unknown is mandatory to move forward. Using both human-engineered and “natural” forms that blend and bleed into one another through their shared proximity and processes of degradation, each sculpture is a physical quandary into blurring the line between anthropocentric and geologic time scales. Constructed chaos, implied/invented phenomena, micro/macro scales, still life and landscapes collide within these poems of the discarded.
My work and studio practice explore relation through the fluid interactions of materiality; using the artifacts produced by their emergence as metaphors for personal experiences, contemporary environmental events and as palpations to the limits of anthropocentric perception. Local, global, and interpersonal relationships are explored
to map a moving target of a sense of place. Time scales are rendered fluid. The archeological quality of clay inspires a deep reverence and responsibility for guiding particles into new forms to evoke a material poetry relevant to contemporary times, while paying homage to their deep histories.”- Jones
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