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Miriam-Josephine Alcott
To outwardly yield psychological states or physical expressions of interior or sub-surface states of mind, exposures or sensations, my installations enlist drawing, photography, sculpture and video. I explore how environment becomes encased in the memory of an experience: the view, the light, the dimensions, the mood, the décor….the impressions that become imbedded in the psyche along with the characters and subjects at hand. Engaging the real and possible and the unreal and impossible, the pieces act as reference points or access nodes to another world.
To construe feelings, memories and emotions through pictorial synthesis, iconic gestures and by controlling space, I use materials that are common and recognizable such as paper, plaster, and wood. Simultaneously, I apply techniques that frustrate the viewer’s ability to see the piece in full frontality. The object seems unattainable, yet with the slightest effort of focus the pieces can be studied in full. I seek to create an immediate interest only to withhold immediate gratification, and from then, the work becomes accessible to all who choose.
My work can be frightening, harsh, unexpected, ugly and violent yet can also be funny, darkly humorous, dreamy and appealing. It’s raw immediacy acts to elicit feeling, to cause a reaction.
