Julia Higgins

Artist Statement

Julia Higgins 2020
I’m interested in the idea of impermanence and the flux of materiality that connects all of life. Through disciplines of painting, sculpture and collage, often in combination, I employ previously performed natural and manufactured articles, ordinary refuse and by-product resulting from my experimental practice. Combining and contrasting the relationships of depth and volume, color, texture and form, I build on mostly nonconventional surfaces. Layering and integrating the storied materials, I intercept the trajectory of found and everyday discards to entomb place and time, incite recognition and memory. Sometimes the work is later reconfigured, or paint and paper is scratched, torn or removed only to leave visual fragments. At the core, the resolved constitutions consider a culture of consumption vs waste and the environmental effects of.

My current assemblage works are amalgams of media culled during my morning runs along the shoreline. Recontextualizing the media, I invent allegorical compositions that seek to meld contentions, both physical and psychic, between human beings and nature.