Gestation
Hope is a sustainable resource:
things I want to tell my children about climate change
all works are on acid-free archival 100% cotton rag paper, measuring 38” x 50”
grief: ghosts
all works are on acid-free archival 100% cotton rag paper, measuring 38” x 50” or 22” x 30”
Generations
Meditations on identity in the context of personal histories, past and future.
doula book
click below for pdf:
by Alexia Cameron © 2021
CLICK TO PURCHASE A COPY:
If you would like to make a donation to support the eBook, you can do so below via PayPal (@AlexiaCameron) or Cash App ($Alexiacameron13) or you can purchase a printed book via the link above (limited quantity currently available).
MATRESCENCE
Please note: This section is a work in progress. (As are we all.) See Project Journal for further notes and updates.
My current work, post-baby, is a collection I call “Matrescence.” The work below is building towards my MFA final project called “Matrescence: Becoming Mother Nature.”
Below is the beginnings of a project journal, showing the evolution of this work. It encompasses sculpture, installation, string art, 2D paintings/drawings, recycled materials, environmental/land art, photography, time, and community building.
Research questions:
What does “trans-” mean to you? Transition, transformation, transfiguration, transgendered, transubstantiation — what do these things all have in common?
What is a major transformation that you have been through? How has it changed you? In what ways can you sit with that change, either metaphorically or physically, in space and time?
How are the sacrifices of a parent/birth parent similar to the sacrifices of the Earth in bearing humanity? How can both find rest and renewal?
How, as artists, can we capture the element of time passing, and dwell in the temporal and ephemeral?
Is healing a spiritual experience? What is the role of pain and grief in healing?
“Matrescence: Becoming Mother Nature” (2024)
Project Journal
Abstract:
Exploring monumental transition, creation, and sacred healing, “Matrescence: Becoming Mother Nature” is a collection of artworks in an environmental context that explores the birth of a mother, the relationship between past and future generations, and a new outlook on climate resilience. The work highlights the parallels between becoming a parent – exuberance, joy, trauma, grief, depletion, restoration, and healing – and the sacrifices made by the earth in bearing and sustaining humanity. The artist investigates how to rediscover connection with nature even in the midst of human structures and the horrors of climate change, and searches for space and time for rest and reconnection with the body in order to heal the soul. The archetypal “inner child” emerges in this work to help find bridges between the past and present, grief and joy. Examples of work include text-based paintings which question the nature of trauma, grief, and identity, and woven canopies, nests, and blankets made of reclaimed cardboard, plastic, and textiles (as well as natural materials such as grasses and leaves) which conceptually speak to a mother’s desire to protect, nurture – and rest. Installing the artwork in the artist’s own backyard highlights the vulnerability and temporality of life and the importance of reckoning with the environment that we live in, while deepening inquiry into the changes that materials face over time – both becoming more resilient, and being reclaimed by nature. “Matrescence” aims to further conversations with parents, caregivers, and the larger community about climate resilience and intergenerational healing.
See full Project Proposal here.
“Before,” backyard of residence, Kirkland WA, 2023.
Below is the beginnings of a project journal, showing the evolution of this work. It encompasses sculpture, installation, string art, 2D paintings/drawings, recycled materials, environmental/land art, photography, time, and community building.
Research questions:
How are the sacrifices of a parent/birth parent similar to the sacrifices of the Earth in bearing humanity? What spaces does a (birth) parent have to simply rest and heal? Are we “children” of the Earth? When and how does the Earth get to rest and heal?
What does “trans-” mean to you? Transition, transformation, transfiguration, transgendered, transubstantiation — what do these things all have in common?
What is a major transformation that you have been through? How has it changed you? In what ways can you sit with that change, either metaphorically or physically, in space and time?
How, as artists, can we capture the passage of time, and dwell in the temporal and ephemeral?
Is healing a spiritual experience? What is the role of pain and grief in healing, joy, and wholeness?
Dreaming, sketching, planning
Laying the groundwork, sourcing, connecting
Witnessing transformation, resting, digging deep
Blooming, building, imagining
