It seems like making the art is the easy part compared to self-promotion and documentation. Finally uploaded some documentation of my recent exhibitions. I'd love to know what you think!
Using the two interrelated sets of imagery of houses
and insects, I am interested in making visible spaces that resemble daydreams
and invoke a sense of wonder. This body
of work explores “the other” within our subconscious as well as through careful
observation of the insect world as connected to a human environment. Layering the insects onto the human spaces
and enlarging their scale, I ask them to operate as biological metaphor - addressing
states of psychological relationships. The objects speak to home, both as a
place for shelter and sometimes a self-imposed prison.
Brooke Hunter-Lombardi Artist’s
Statement for City Art Center, Delaware, Ohio 2012
Doll houses are a place to play and
perhaps to plan a domestic future. As a
child I spent countless hours shopping and planning for, decorating and playing
with my Victorian themed doll house. I
slipped away into fantasy, imagining personalities and pastimes for the china
dolls that lived in the space. I often
dreamt (both while sleeping and awake) about being in the spaces and about
living in a past era where you needed blocks of ice and buckets of coal in your
kitchen. I fabricated family drama,
never realizing how tragic and complex real family dynamics could become. Here I want to explore the quiet spaces we
inhabit where the objects themselves are full of history and the silence holds
both joy and pain, evidence and mystery.
Replacing the dolls, silkworms and
moths inhabit the space. Silkworms are
extinct in the wild, only able to exist under the care of humans. They hatch from hundreds of freckle-sized
eggs as tiny larvae and eat exclusively mulberry leaves, almost continually for
four to five weeks. Then they never eat
again. So many die; often slowly,
appearing to suffer. If they live to
spin, they become interested in their surroundings for the first and last time
in their lives. Cocoon creation takes
anywhere from a day to a week. Tucked away in their constructed safety it takes
them two weeks to transform. They
secrete a fluid that makes a hole from which they escape. They crawl out into the world as adult moths. This life lasts ten days at the most during
which their only goals are to mate and lay eggs. Their wings are too short to allow
flight. These brief weeks are lived in
captivity; a slow careful dance with many variables leading to premature death.
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