ARTWORK STATEMENT
This work reflects on life’s tender dualities—grief and joy, absence and connection—as experienced over the past year. My time working with children through art making has deeply influenced this piece, as their uninhibited creativity and sense of wonder are a continual source of inspiration.
Made from watercolor-saturated paper towels collected from my students across Miami, each one was once used to clean their work surfaces and now reimagined into sculptural forms with epoxy resin. These everyday materials carry traces of process and play, transformed into a meditation on impermanence and resilience. The apertures within the towels echo emotional voids left by grief, yet their overlapping and entangled forms speak to the enduring strength we find in community and care. Through this artwork, I aim to evoke a sense of introspection and empathy, inviting viewers to contemplate the ways in which we navigate both loss and resilience.
This piece was exhibited in KALEIDOSCOPE: Refractions of Community and Care, presented by ProjectArt alongside the 2024 ProjectArt Miami teaching artist cohort at Swampspace Gallery.
Image of the artist, Halley Bohm, with their work.
