New work from interdisciplinary, Portland-based artist Kim Smith Claudel explores time through the framework of reproductive years—a personally tumultuous period of indecision in which the artist grapples with the complex choice of whether or not to have children.
From the Artist’s Statement…
“Some days I feel defective, at odds with my body’s hardware and her programming. Wanting to want, waiting to want, or simply not wanting. She tries so hard, each month. But still, I carry on, suppressing this intent.
Placing the 10,861 days of my reproductive years—the petals and the stones, paper, pearls and brass—I feel the weight of its immensity, though I hold nothing to show for it and it could so quickly be swept away. The cycle is the backdrop of this tumultuous time, the always-present operating system I float like a wave. I feel the pattern changing; but what is beyond, I cannot know.”
– Kim Smith Claudel
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