ARTIST STATEMENT
As human beings we live in/on earth, in habitats, in homes, within communities and workplaces. We find comfort and, over time, grow into various states of togetherness or oneness passing days, months, and years with each other. The act of cutting apart, and the eventuality of change potentially encapsulate a full spectrum of human emotion. The resulting effect propels one down any number of potentially unknown paths. When my feet pad across the earth and stones, I imagine all those living things—plant and animal alike—that once lived and are now buried beneath my feet. I can feel the telltale hearts of wooly mammoths, smell the green, fresh ferns, and hear the yetto-be discovered hearts of the long dead beat again in me. I have been fortunate to travel on planet earth and spend as much time admiring, observing, smelling, feeling, and caring for her as was possible. It seems that nature never seems to fail any large appetite for consuming its natural, visual delights and it seems that human appetites never seem to diminish in their desire to own/possess it.
—Anne Austin Pearce
by Anne Austin Pearce
