about the artist
d truthsayer is fundamentally concerned with the relationships between humans and all the magnificent fellow lives on our planet - animal, plant, even microscopic intercellular life Her interest is in plural subjectivity and notions about our understanding of all living systems and interplanetary aspirations, In exploring ways to express the physicality of this, her art-making directions have included:
Photography explorations of human and tree relationships, using photo negative re-combining
Two channel video, where her body and tree forms and sounds project onto facing walls
Jewel-like sections of the body cast in silver solder, with wire platforms
Glow Series: assembled and/or molded structures and masks
Human body or plant hydrostone and black exopy castings in parted halves
Body gestures in hardened silk with wire
She received her Bachelors in Studio Art from UCLA, studying under acclaimed artists such as Andrea Fraser, Barbara Kruger, Rodney T. McMillian, Catherine Opie, and James Welling. d truthsayer has a BA in Studio Arts from UCLA. and has shown extensively in California, with solo exhibitions at Moby’s on Main and multiple curated exhibitions, including 18th Street Arts Center, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Emeritus Gallery, Long Beach Arts, Hive Gallery, and Basswerks among others. Her work is represented in many national and international private collections.
artist statement
Spiraling outward and inward from the spell of the sensual engagement with the biosphere, I work with the primal gut-punch of encounter with other lives. In my art I take on the need for that wildness, alongside that for safety. It springs from the reality most persons and every animal now find themselves in; the constrained habitat. As it further dawns on all, man and creature, that we are increasingly fitting ourselves into smaller spaces, from tiny homes to nature reserves and botanical parks, the vivid encounter with the truly wild is snuffed by these constraints.
It is the beginning we are missing. Missing badly that fresh moment, hydration from the breath of trees, creatures living alongside, soft sounds of the hidden others, Multisensory moments that we feel so alive in. Cultures and societies compete for living space and resources with lives around them, and undamaged open spaces are now in memory or the imagination. All creatures manage as best they can, and adapt if possible. Art becomes a place we can flow in our minds and perhaps retrieve some awe and profound newness.
The strong attention and sense of sensual connection that has been our pact with physicality, that experience of being bodies on planet earth; animal, bird, insect, plant bodies - and each having a different perceptive overlay on the physics of living - due to different eye structures, olfactory abilities, or magnetic awareness (e.g. birds navigating via magnetic north sensitivity)… stepping forth from humanness is our challenge,.. this is storied in my art via multiple forms of encounter with ourselves and other lives.