RE:collection
My Earth and Ash series has been focused on Ireland for the last several years andI know I am not done, even if I am starting to pivot into a new direction I don’t even know the destination of yet.
RE:collection centers on collecting as a creative act. Three artists collect what’s been cast off—by time, by taste, by necessity—and transform it through processes that move beyond painting. Collecting becomes both method and meaning: a way to reassemble stories of self, culture, and land. Here, the disregarded becomes deliberate—an alchemy of gathering and transformation. The work shows how what we collect reshapes what we value.
Kelly Williams works with beeswax and fire, embedding peat ash, carbon pigments, and gathered waters—including holy well water—into layered surfaces where myth, history, and the female form press through abstraction into presence.
Helen C. White gathers archival ephemera—old letters, photographs, vintage magazine imagery, and found papers—layering and revising them into works that chronicle re-membering, where personal history meets cultural trace.
Myrna Tatar gathers the everyday evidence of consumption and use—street-found scraps and small objects—and re-forms them into quirky, intuitive constructions that balance humor, tenderness, and sharp observation.
