Time Machine 1, 2022, gouache on paper construction, 10.5 x 9 x 5.5 inches; Bryophilia, 2022, gouache on paper construction, 11 x 10 x 4 inches by Sharon Servilio
"Working with paper as my chosen medium, I collage, fold, sculpt, weave, and paint to construct diorama-like reliefs where celestial spheres or microbes can coexist with clocks, rugs, flowers, and bodies. The medium acts as an equalizer that flattens the distance between the cosmic and the mundane, allowing interactions among the macro, micro, and human scale. Through the scale-agnostic quality of the imagination, we are freed from the “obligation of dimensions,” as Gaston Bachelard described in The Poetics of Space. We can see a flock of birds and feel in our bodies a fleeting sense of infinite sky, or glimpse the tiniest, perfectly formed mosses and burrow down into chthonic realms of fractally-increasing, intimate specificity."