Alix Deane

The land we come from is inextricably linked to our lived experience, our makeup, and our footprint. For me, home is a space of transformation and articulation. It is my queerhood.

 

My practice demands a participation of close looking toward the earth and my personal narrative; mirroring the way I move through space and time. I work with materials tied to the rich histories of my home place; which include but are not limited to the pulp and paper industry, x-ray film and silicon production, and agriculture. Most recently, I have been working with materials which use the language of historical photographic processes and medicine in order to capture the sense of my home landscape. 

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My work is an undertaking of writing the story of coming of age in a world saturated with illness; it is my way of reading, writing, and rewriting the human condition.

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Materials within the natural landscape become metaphorical elements in my visual practice. In Maternal silence, water is a metaphor for mother and life. In Language in stone, sediment and rock are redefined as memory objects and grief objects. In my most recent body of work, Body scan, a river is compared to the reproductive system of a childbearing aged body. 

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