Kim Ferrer - "Shed"

Change is nature’s lesson in impermanence. 

The transition of fall into winter, winter into spring, spring into summer and summer into fall reveals a gradual process of acceptance, shedding, surrender and renewal. These recurring cycles of the seasons are a reminder as well as a metaphor of our own experiences of loss, change and new beginnings. 

Starting with a single aspen tree trunk covered with worm borers’ patterns and split into two halves, the labor of taking porcelain impressions and graphite prints initiates a dialog with nature and the inner self.  Becoming vehicles for discovery, these materials and processes record rhythms and systems reflected in nature while symbolizing shedding a past or unfolding into a future.

Collectively this body of work mirrors a life moving within the transitory state of nature that is forever shifting, rearranging and letting go into new configurations of being in the world. Like the earth, how we heal and regenerate comes in stages.