Anima
Lydia Miller
March 6 to April 18
Artist Statement
In order to impel change, it is important to stay connected
to our individual selves, to the environment that allows us to live, and to
those who support us through our true vocations. My autonomy has been given
existence through weaving: a process that functions as a metaphor for life and
its survival. This series of sculpture acts as a transcript.
In ‘Anima’, relationships are woven between the Ocean and the Mountains. Life
is reflected through the remains of the animals and plants who once contributed
to their environment. Every facet of our Earth has a soul, countless years of
energy, which has amalgamated into physical beings.
Now the Earth is suffering because of a desire to
accumulate, to feed an ego, to serve a culture that is all consuming with no
return. Even after death, humans feel the need to take up space for fear of
being forgotten.
This god complex has
fractured the connection between the natural world and our place in it. The
infectious and fictional ideas that we are greater than the stars we come from
and the soil we will inevitably lie beneath, presume our ‘intelligence’
surpasses the worth of any other form of life on this shared planet.
The
cycle of life is inescapable, once each organism has served and fulfilled its
space on Earth, it must return to the dirt to make room for new blooms. May ‘Anima’ help to
ignite the importance of our cohesive ecosystems and remind us that there are
superlative forces to us, forces we must once again respect if we so choose to
survive.