It Will Come Like a Wave

In an effort to understand the meaning of things, my art practice is concerned with the potential for spaces to apprehend individuality through the experience of introspection by way of entering and discovering a foreign landscape. This paper explores my theoretical and practice- based research which focuses on the garden as a place that is conducive to a stillness and contemplation. A state that can lead to meditation or imagination through its muted aesthetics, material reverence, dream-likeness and subtle cultural references. The exhibition It Will Come Like a Wave is the result of my MFA in Visual Arts thesis research. Per the installation conceiving of moments of water dripping and pooling, plant life emerging from the seams and earthy formations that possess a history, I investigate how direct experiences of place allow the viewer to establish our vulnerability as human beings and even cultivate moral sensibility.