Alison Heverly

My work examines the body's relationship to touch through the process of molding and casting my own body, detaching parts of myself from the whole and re-membering that which is dislocated from its origin. The isolation of my own body parts from my physical authentic self creates a layer of separation that creates a space of objective observation of my body. The rearticulation of these pieces is a synthesis of those observations. It is through this detachment from my body that I create the space to reflect on my relationship to touch, memories of intimacy, and what it feels like to experience tenderness.

I work both slowly and hastily, creating pieces of a puzzle to put together a work that alters in result as I respond to its making. Thinking is making, and the making process gives me more space to think. It is through quick making, constricted by time and formal parameters, that impulse reveals to me something new, surprising, or illuminating to previous thought. It is through slow making that I evaluate present thought, as slow making cultivates a deep intimacy with those ideas, feelings, and observations.