Mari Miller: The Land Loves Us
Radial bursts that ripple outward into rhythmic waves of paracemium-like shapes adjacent protozoic gridded patterns proliferating upward to hover from the sky is the world Mari Miller sees. The microscopic as if macrocosm, the unseen organic systems of what surrounds us.
And how apt that the artist generates such imagery in sepia on paper through chromatography, a technique used to separate the components of a substance to find out what it is composed of and its use which affects everything from what we eat to how vaccines are made.
Our food… what we eat, how it is made, cooked, brewed.
Of learning how our relationship to the physical ground we live in, stand on, are a part of is reciprocal, feeding and nourishing us that provokes a complicated history between East and West whether home-grown or mass-produced.
Scientific method as artistic process and vice versa.