Material Wit

In creating this collection artist Jessie Morrow was inspired by ocean textures created through elemental force.  An object once mathematically perfect and expansive (even self replicating) now decays under the forces of water, wind and earth.  Slowly giving into nothingness.

In an object’s movement within decay, its beauty is transformed and understood by the observer as different and all its own.  Worn by the very environment it calls home, the thing becomes another version of itself.  A shell, a stone, a piece of sea plant all have a version of this shared fate, to be ground down, reintegrated and inevitably consumed.

Many of us find beauty in these worn objects.  Perhaps it is because we recognize the release that’s necessary to transform.  That a little bit of chaos and destruction is just part of it all.  The pieces in this collection celebrate those transforming textures of nature’s movement and decay.