PORTFOLIO
A Walk With Water
NEW COLLECTION
The collection A Walk With Water is a series that Stephanie has continued to work on over the course of 2023. This series responds to the transformative potential realized through encounters with new and familiar spaces near bodies of water. This is Stephanie’s chief source of inspiration given its tremendous power – as a force of nature, a site of cultures, and a life source to its location.
Stephanie often goes for walks as a means to ground herself and as part of her studio practice. In this series she layers imagery from her walks with abstract mark-making created through the process of stain painting. This layering of forms speaks to the layered experience of connecting to a place, be it an emotional, mental, or physical bond.
Fleeting, Flowing, Flying
This series is for those who are grasping for something to hold onto in a sea of transformation and change. It was created when I was preparing to cross oceans and leave one home for another. In some way, we are all looking for a place to call home – a place to feel grounded, something we can hold onto. But life, like water and air, is filled with movement and change. Perhaps that change is what we need to hold onto after all?
What Keeps the Water in the Sea?
In this series, the imagery of turbulent waters represents the unpredictable and ever-changing nature of the human experience. What Keeps the Water in the Sea? is a metaphor for the things that hold us together as we move through the unknown. The bedrock of the earth and gravity keep the water in the sea. Similarly, everyone chooses their own foundation when navigating change. This body of work celebrates the spirit of moving forward through transition and transformation.
Why Do Fish Jump Out of Water?
This series reflects on the feeling of duplicity where you are in one place but longing to be in another. You feel pulled in one direction but life has carried you to where you are today. Like water, life moves and changes to carry you where you need to go.
This series employs a layering of forms and aesthetic traditions to express the layering of objective reality with subjective experience.