Joy Broom
“We’re lucky to be artists right now: shelter-in-place can mean time in the studio. Of course I feel anxious about the virus “out there”, but making stuff feels safe.”
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This work is about History and Memory. It also reflects broader aspects of the Biological Sciences. It’s a collaboration, an ongoing engagement with inherited memorabilia, and the deconstruction of old family letters, scrapbook pages and photo albums.
My practice has a long history of layering visual elements of the natural world: insects, seeds, trees, veins, cellular magnifications. An ovoid shape represents an insect winter hibernation cluster; branches hint at circulatory systems, with a sly nod to literal family trees.
I’m combining the beauty of biology with the symmetrical order of icons and altarpieces. It’s my intent to progress through the strictly personal to engage in wider historical and biological concepts and questions.