My work is a visual account of my everyday experiences - a narration of the mundane and sublime in each day and how these seemingly varied experiences exhibit nature's transformative, restorative and live-giving forces.
The routine of cleaning my often-clogged drain led me on an exploration of human hair as a medium for depicting the reshaping of mind and body in yoga practice. These drawings made of human hair and glue, contain DNA and record a totally distinct moment in a body's time. While the drawings scientifically capture the essential building blocks of life, my paintings are alternatively fantastical, frozen-in-time depictions of cells in primordial matter and disparate botanical reproductive systems colliding.
The act of drawing with hair, gluing down single strands of hair one at a time, or painting layer upon layer of paint, is like identifying the infinite points between here and there. The immediacy of finding the solution seems to fade away and the richness of the details takes hold of the mind.
- Kate Gilbert Miller
(Click here to read more about the Hair Drawing Series.)