Vestiges
By Nicole Havekost
On view: February 20- March 14
Artist talk and closing reception March 14 at 4pm
Artist Statement
I am fascinated by the body. I make work that reflects the increasing age and slow decay I witness in my own changing body. Coarse hair grows in places that were once smooth. Lungs take in air and bones degrade. Flesh softens and slumps. I choose to accept it all as revelation and horror.
I am drawn to materials that are both delicate and familiar; evocative of the body, lived experience and memory. I am deeply interested in process, labor, and a compulsive mark-making that span both time and surface. My favored tool is a needle; it changes a surface by piercing a hole and passing through it. That needle attached to thread however can repair or even transform that surface by joining it back to itself or another material.
The act and effects of destruction can make a form unrecognizable and new. A repair allows for the recognition of change within the familiar. Both actions speak to my experience as a woman and mother undergoing perpetual and progressive change of this physical body and my evolving roles in the world.
