Rebekah Miller

Lives and works in Dawson City, YT, Canada

Artist statement

Through acts of skinning, casting, imprinting, and reinterpreting forms through drawing—I create works that serve as points of entry into the idea of home, understood as the matrix of our relationship to the natural world. These skins invite viewers to consider habitation not only as shelter, but as an embodied experience rooted in landscape, memory, and connection. I am interested in the ways surfaces hold traces of presence, and how the places we inhabit become extensions of the body itself. Working across sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and fibre, I use each medium to investigate these ideas from a different vantage point. Repetition, creation, and deconstruction form a meditative process through which I explore the forces that shape memory and perception. By separating and reconstructing the layers of my subjects, I examine the tension between exterior surfaces and interior spaces. The resulting works exist as skins without bodies—forms defined by absence. What remains is a trace of their former selves, a quiet eulogy articulated through the delineation of skin. My practice is increasingly informed by the experience of motherhood and an expanded understanding of care as both a physical and conceptual act. The repetitive gestures embedded within my process—casting, layering, stitching, preserving, and rebuilding—parallel the rhythms of caregiving. Through these actions, I explore the body not only as a site of identity, but as a vessel of transformation, memory, and...

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