KATIE CARRUTHERS

December 8 — 29, 2017

KATIE CARRUTHERS’S cocoon series lies within preservation, awareness and authenticity. In light of becoming a mother, she has been strongly influenced to create work that spoke to living closely and deeply with each thing that touches us each day and to develop a level understanding within our environments we have not experienced before. Ones developed awareness is the gateway to a fulfilled and meaningful life. Further, she is interested in the connective energy people feel when experiencing art. It is in the art experience, where the questions arise, viewers have a profound moment where the art becomes apart of them, and they become apart of the art. Neither can exist without the other and upon meeting again, euphoria descends much like connecting with an old friend. She feels, as an artist, it is her job to observe, wonder and record. To then present her findings in a way that allows viewers to have a deep enough experience in order to ask the same questions, to feel something outside themselves, and to think beyond the depths of ones own consciousness