Rachel Apelt

Terra

Artist statement

Mixed media and encaustic on wooden panels. Various sizes

A mist that clings to the hill tops. Earth, sky, trees and leaves - a geography that shifts inward. Our skins, porous as the soil, open to let the trees drip through us, washing off the dust, returning us to earth.

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These works continue my exploration of the shifting self and the duality of the seemingly indomitable presence of humans reshaping natural spaces - and the fact that nature always wins. We are of it. we are part of it, even if our shifting notion of self argues otherwise.

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