Meg Stein

Lives and works in Durham, NC, USA

Artist statement

My sculptures explore embodied healing in order to reckon with and transform harmful ways of being and to help people experience freedom and aliveness. Weaving together many frameworks, including white anti-racism, healing justice, ecofeminism, environmental justice, meditative arts, visionary sci fi, southern gothic and Southern-rooted liberation movements, my work dissembles and then re- imagines symbolic vocabulary from our bodies and surrounding environment, creating space for new possibilities around how we can relate to ourselves, to one another and to the more-than-human life around us. My current work explores the connections between our wild internal and external environments—our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual landscapes and the natural world. One goal of my work is to help audiences experience more wonder for the natural world while seeing how we are connected to it. Sculpture is my primarily artistic area of expertise and over the last six years this has meant ceramic sculpture. I am also experienced with illustrative drawings, which I use both in my process and as final pieces. I create familiar yet unknown amalgamations to reveal the dialogue between seemingly disconnected realms and remind us of the tools we already possess. The visual vocabulary for my ceramic sculptures begins with intuitive drawings that inspire and evolve into three-dimensional structures. I create inventive amalgamations from a multiplicity of natural forms, including references...

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