emily

Born with an artist’s temperament. That was twenty three years ago and my attitude hasn’t changed much, but now I flow through making. Working as a young woman artist in the contemporary world, I often find myself in duel roles; a graduate of The University of the Arts with a BFA, concentrating in Fibers, an organic farmer and most recently a textile assistant and entrepreneur. As a fiber arts student, I worked to take responsibility for my personal exploits of our planet's resources by using the disregarded and discarded plastics that reign superior in our consumer driven society. Repetitive processes such as weaving, sewing, knitting and crocheting form basic surface and structure for the further development of a visual and metaphorical bond between man-made materials and man, the creator. Sights, signs, smell and sound inflict upon the senses as I migrates through the familiar places and faces of Philadelphia. Entranced in repetitive motion, the world becomes a blur of line, shape, color and form. It bleeds to a woven pattern trapped in mind, until I constructs surfaces to mimic the man-destructed highs, lows, peaks and blows one might find. At twenty one my greatest accomplishments were completing my senior thesis show and gradating from college, but it was the months that followed that proved to be the true test of character, skill and ingenuity. I spent eight weeks in the early fall of 2006 intently living throughout Europe. Working primarily in Switzerland on organic and bio dynamic farms was a far stretch from the intrusive city life that had directly influenced my senior thesis work. With new sights seen and new skills learned, it was a trip that has surely influenced my most recent body of work. I am currently investigating the infliction of man on nature and its natural resources. Looking to answer the question “How might a modern maker live life harmoniously with the Earth, even in the city?” Just as necessity created craft and function gave way to form, I took a page from William Morris and decided to design my own kind of life. After a few months back in the US, I took a conventional approach to survival, working as a textile assistant for Nine West Design, New York, NY. I opened a virtual gallery to expose myself and work to the greater public. Striving for financial independence creativity hit the bottom line. The next step was clear, marketing a line of hand crafted jewelry, wired by e available soon through http://holophrastic.com/egallery/ and e-bay.