Widening Circles

EILEEN ROSCINA

Exhibition at the Salina Art Center, South Gallery; Residency August 25 - September 5; Exhibition September 2 - November 8

artist statement

The kitchen is the heart of the home, the center of the circle. In this dreamed kitchen, the wallpaper, made of pressed flowers, is inspired by a voronoi pattern, the way in which bubbles are arranged in nature. This is an indicator of nature’s tendency to favor efficiency: the nearest neighbor, shortest path, tightest fit. This idea leads to the physical and social bubbles we currently live in. Humans are experiencing the impacts of a new world with limited contact and touch. I look ahead to the day when we don’t have to think twice about widening our bubbles, our circles.  However, right now,  when in the kitchen baking bread, fermenting, or cooking more than usual, bubbles are a sign of life -  a sign of hope.

Bio

Biennial artist, Eileen Roscina, will be a resident artist in the South Gallery, August 25 - September 5. Roscina is an artist, experimental filmmaker and naturalist currently living in Denver, Colorado. She earned a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA, is an MFA candidate at University of Colorado, Boulder and trained at the School of Botanical Art and Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry and the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual and social (dis)connection with nature, and seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space and our place in the world. She will be hosting a Cyanotype workshop and an artist talk on fermentation.