I take inspiration from encountered everyday moments that produce strange anomalies which shift or alter the body's movement or positioning. Meaning is made between unlikely subjects and habits form and repeat. Tensions emerge between objects that alter our movements, and objects that draw, map, or direct movement through space. These objects, indifferent to human recognition, continue on uninterrupted in their being, but nonetheless interrupting.
Using miniatures, duplicates, decoys and mimicry, my work asks the body to reconsider, adjust, or imagine alternative ways of moving or being. How can scale and memory affect the way we move through and understand the world? Is an encountered thing more pliable in the moments of encounter or in the moments that follow? Ways of noticing and finding become central to the work, prompting the viewer to question not only what they are seeing, but how they are seeing. The work foregrounds the viewers perspective, revealing larger structures that shape our experiences of space.
Abigail grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from Trinity Christian College, located in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago. She earned her MFA in Studio Art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a concentration in sculpture and installation.
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