KTS
Shortly after finishing college, I journeyed “out west” to Colorado, to try out a life under a huge sky. I had then, and have retained, a hunger for wide-open spaces. Where place outweighs personhood. Land that by its completeness, indifference and magnitude, diminishes me. Places me.
But before even Colorado there was the ocean, having grown up in Los Angeles, a ten-minute drive away. Fascination with the sea began in childhood and rendering the repetitive nature of the surface of the sea occupied me for several years. In researching images of the surface of the sea I came across photos taken by the coast guard that illustrate what the open sea looks like at varying wind force.
Somehow I associate wild tracts of sea and land with longing. When my eye travels to a distant horizon, there is a longing for that which is just beyond reach, for something ever beyond reach, ever just slightly incomprehensible. The horizon becomes a signifier of desire, of making me be forever midway, reaching.
The Kts series formed my contribution to the co-curatorial exhibition project, developed with fellow artist nif hodgson, titled Scene/Unseen. This exhibition showed at St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, California in 2016.