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There is potential for disconnection when trying to turn your head inside out and present it in a way that feels beautiful for others.
There is potential for disconnection when trying to turn your head inside out and present it in a way that feels beautiful for others.
My work challenges conventional perceptions of time, exploring how biological processes and their relationship to subjective experiences of temporality inform cultural structures and perspective. Incorporating backgrounds in film, sound, animation, design, object-making, and theatre performance, I create installation-based work situated under the umbrella of time, gesture, and performance, emphasized by visual and auditory experiences. I see my works as living spaces—reactive, resonant, feeling—where the act of one’s perception becomes an unfolding dialogue between presence/recognition/bias/stimulus. By integrating sensory experiences that envelop and reorient, I fabricate portals of awareness, where viewers can experience the inexorability of time, the echoes of history, and the fluidity of identity. My work is an ongoing negotiation between what is seen, heard, and felt, inviting environments where the many may question and reimagine their own positions within the world.
As I have spent stretches of time asking people, texts, and experiments to define time in a way that I can understand and stand with, I’ve come to find that time so beautifully dances on the farthest edges of both immensity and desolation.
As I have spent stretches of time asking people, texts, and experiments to define time in a way that I can understand and stand with, I’ve come to find that time so beautifully dances on the farthest edges of both immensity and desolation.
The work of Catherine Ashley explores what it means to be a maker informed by the world in/outside of oneself.