Finding Center #10 - 2.25” x 1.25” x 1.25”, Wood and Silver, 2020
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Artist Statement
I am fascinated by jewelry and household items because they are objects of intimacy. I am drawn to stories about how we connect to each other and the physical spaces we inhabit. My recent work is an exploration of identity as it relates to memory loss and dementia. If we are all just a collection of memories, what happens to our sense of identity as the ability to recall our own history fades? Without personal narrative do we become lost to ourselves, shadows of our own pasts? Making this work is an investigation of communication and recollection, the habits and hopes that remain as memory fades away.
Bio
Abigail Heuss is an Associate Professor at Valdosta State University, where she teaches Foundations and Metalsmithing courses. She holds an M.F.A. in Metal Design from East Carolina University and a B.F.A. in Metalsmithing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions, and been published in several books and magazines. Abigail makes domestic and wearable objects with an unapologetically sentimental focus on narrative.
I am fascinated by jewelry and household items because they are objects of intimacy. I am drawn to stories about how we connect to each other and the physical spaces we inhabit. My recent work is an exploration of identity as it relates to memory loss and dementia. If we are all just a collection of memories, what happens to our sense of identity as the ability to recall our own history fades? Without personal narrative do we become lost to ourselves, shadows of our own pasts? Making this work is an investigation of communication and recollection, the habits and hopes that remain as memory fades away.
Bio
Abigail Heuss is an Associate Professor at Valdosta State University, where she teaches Foundations and Metalsmithing courses. She holds an M.F.A. in Metal Design from East Carolina University and a B.F.A. in Metalsmithing from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her work has been shown in national and international exhibitions, and been published in several books and magazines. Abigail makes domestic and wearable objects with an unapologetically sentimental focus on narrative.