Artist statement

Arisa... This exhibition/piece I am displaying today honestly feels like a

marriage between my older selves and my current self or like sitting in
an awkward room after arguing with your sibling. My pieces today for
String Theory are made within the time span of 30 days, made after
deciding I’m going to do an art exhibit.

With the theme of String Theory, I connected my feelings of concepts of

essence and life within non-organic objects. My works are
romantic/fictional story telling/depictions of if human feelings shaped
the form of an object. (As most fictional stories do.) But these
essences/panpsychic perspectives bounce off the different objects in
the works, and do not stay at one piece. They change trajectory,
betraying and shifting as it reveals it self.

I hope that when you see my pieces, you aren’t trying to decipher them,
but rather sit with them, and engage with them in a soft passive way
like you would with the quiet kid in class. These pieces are moving and
volatile, shaking and silent, but need the right amount of pressure to be
grounded. Sit with them, and hopefully you could remember them too.

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Sara... String Theory follows the concept of translating what has been
recorded on a 2 dimensional into textiles. Using thread, the basic unit of
a textile, you can witness the paper fibers struggle mid-transformation,
a road, the map route, musical frequencies of a harmony, the turbulence
of an overnight flight across the globe, a ribbon, a fine thread. In a
symphony of sound and movement treading through the dimensions of
space and time.

This idea for this exhibit was born out of direct thoughts and feelings I
had towards my art. Up to this point, my quest was to translate myself ->
art. Now that I figured that out, my main quest would be to translate my
art -> fashion. To do that, I decided to break it down and focus on
working with textiles first.

Doing this exhibit at this point in my life gave me a reason to keep

creating despite all the obstacles, it kept me grounded when I needed it
most.